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EUROPEAN NUMBERS INFORMATION GATHERING 
AND MONITORING ASSOCIATION 




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Enigma Newsletter 

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NEXT. ISSIUL. We aim to publish the next issue of ENIGMA in late 
February 1997. 

Contributions would be appreciated by EE JJ2A Z d A EI IA EI . ?A 1 997. - 

THANK YOU 



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C OVER TSSUF U ENIGMA ' Fun Caption Competition ' - Send m your 
captions and tell us what the two men in the cover picture are saying. 
Sorry no prize but we will print the best in issue 12. 



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, . • neJ . // direct equivalent 

mU S£ LAMM QL STATIONS. (Other azJuxa. stations. // aenber) 



El) READY READY - Mode AM //Ml? 

Still very active. Transmissions 
minute intervals. 



repeat on two frequencies at 20 



SUN UK 1 
SUN 
SUN 



22.00 
22.20 
22. 40 



MON UK 2/3 21.30 
21 . 50 

22.10 

MED UK 1/3 19.00 

19.20 
19.40 



4740 62 

4740 32 
4460 32 
4270 32 

4740 84 
3910 84 
3410 84 



MON UK 2/4 



TUE UK 1/2 

3 



UED UK 



1/2 

4 



20. 00 
20. 20 

20.40 

19.00 

19.20 

19.40 

22.00 

22.20 

22.40 



4 740 04 
3410 04 
3910 04 

4740 06 
3910 06 
3410 06 

6930 13 
8675 13 
5695 13 



. f or w inter months. All reports 

May move to lower frequencies for 

appreciated . 



E3) LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER - Mode USB //E4 



^ j on fi c* fi day. Starting at 

Transmissions continue between 1 . an ^ frequencies are selected 

the top of each hour for 45 minute . continues to affect 

from the list shown below. Jamming f between 2 0.00 <5 22.45. Jamming 

The frequency usage de spends on messag 7755 on 

VlfX'Yt Z’Z'TAtl, SI/a„5 10426) ,06 6900 00 Saturday at 20.00 

(with 11545 and 10426). 

Sii sssr»s 

fffAT. i" SS"J “"■* <*,. °‘ tt - c ° mments wel °° me ' 

Jt 0,6 recently Tie f 

ito^cTuV 1 /. tVr/inVla^round. Tec tr.o S .Utere n ns. ,t 
the ■ same time ? 

Heard with ID signal and no message, testing on 6968 at 13.50 
E4) CHERRY RIPE - Mode USB //E3 

12-6 sister station is still active using ^ggYsT (Z^t’th'nZ “sent 

different ausical sarker. Recent r P S ^ aaeasine Popular 

oner OS transsitters Cased ™ f/The PossiCle use of a location 
Communications , however, also t> 
in Singapore. 



New frequencies have been noted 
Europe. 



in Japan, 



reception is difficult in 



Transmissions follow Linco 
for 45 minutes. At present 
between 10.00 and 14.45 . 
frequencies . 



lnshiro Poacher format starting on the hour 
are receiving reports of transmissions 



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art; l ct uc - j . * — - — — _ , . 

would suggest you try the following 



V 



10452 11570 13866 14469 17499 20474 23411 



He have also heard of one transmission 
this is not audible in Europe at this 



at 20.00 on 4768 heard in Asia, 
time. 



All reports appreciated . 

E5) COUNTING STATIONS - Mode AM //G5/E14 



Still very active in English language . 



i M t ^jr P urz-& a ri>££' 

// Frequencies shown where known. 



MON 07.00 9160 
MON 15.00 8143/10727 
MON 16.00 9219/11491 
MON 20.00 7747/ 9160 

TUE 14.00 7470/12221 
TUE 15.00 7600/10567 
TUE 17.00 9220/11491 
TUE 20.00 8143/ 5850 



HED 12.00 11470 
HED 13.00 8116 
HED 15.00 11123 
HED 17.00 9219/11491 
HED 18.00 6970/ 8143 
HED 20.00 5850/ 8143 

THE 06.00 9219 
THR 07.00 9160 
THR 16.00 9219/11491 
THR 18.00 10727 
THR 20.00 5850/ 8143 



FRI 13.00 14475 
FRI 15.00 8085/10597 
FRI 20.00 5850/ 8143 
FRI 21.00 9357 

SAT 07.00 9070/11073 
SAT 12.00 11470 
SAT 13.00 7547/10529 
SAT 15.00 8143/10727 
SAT 16.00 10529 
SAT 20.00 7740/ 9160 



SUN 07.00 11072/9070 
SUN 12.00 13874/15822 



SUN 14.00 7470/12221 
SUN 15.00 8143/11123 



SUN 16.00 7473/9070 

SUN 17.00 9274 

SUN 18.00 11072/13444 



EG » E7) ENGLISH EES ' 00000 ’ t ' 000 000 ’ Hode AH //SB t S7 Families 
See also our ososf P^re^ e«^ -Rossi. ff /f/Zine* Engfis/ 7/n/n 

S au\Jr toe HE Heeds niedt end 

day. 

Schedules are long and frequencies use seem almost random. 

E9) MAGNETIC FIELDS Mode AM //V8 

Unfortcnately ~.«J ^Td” al/o’Taif/le °UT ’.S'l/AlS' " 

ZlZiilsZT loZfZstVed t/t fa 1 / sot dean Heard recently. 

Only one confirmed report SAT 09.20 11290 It is possible that the 

station is still active at other times/frequencies. 

See also V8 which is the sister station. 



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Et$) PHONETIC ALPHABET -NATO Mods AM/S SB 

Still very active indeed. He recently noted new call-sign Tango Mike 
Sierra (TMS 22) on 5339. At first I thought this was a new call as it 
did not appear on any of my own records or in documents in our files. 
But by a strange coincidence it turned up on a cassette tape we 
received of numbers station recordings from the late 1970 s. So TMS is 
not quite a new call, just a very rare one. 

He are preparing a feature about message strings (VLB 22D45D46E47 ) 
etc. for the next issue. I hope to be able to throw light onto these 
strange transmissions. 

All information shown below is based on reports received since last 
issue. Some frequencies share call signs. 

2270 JSR 2540 VLB 2743 ULX 2844 YMF 3090 SYN 3150 PCD 3253 ULX 
3270 KPA 3415 ART 3495 HIV 3640 CIO 3960 VLB 4165 SYN 4360 KPA 
4463 FTJ 4665 CIO 4780 KPA 4880 ULX 5092 JSR 5170 VLB 5232 HIM 
5437 ART 5339 IMS. 5530 VLB 5630 SYN 5820 YMF 6270 ??? 6370 MIV 
6600 NDP 6660 SYN 6746 CIO 6842 EZI 7322 FTJ 7445 VLB 7606 VLB 
7920 ??? 8127 CIO 8642 CIO 9130 EZI 9270 KPA 



10125 SYN 10352 CIO 10820 VLB 11565 12747 CIO EZI 12950 SYN 
14750 SYN 15016* VLB 17410 EZI. Drop in activity at + 10 MHs. 



* Reports of VLB still active on 15016 at 09.45 & 10.45. 

Other oddities include NDP-R & NDP-X plus TMS-22. The longest ever 
message string from VLB recently was VLB 14B2Z156Z133Z140Z172Z117Z188 . 
More on these in issue 12. 



Also to end on this station. VLB was heard for a few days on 5530 at 
20.00, on top of station E15 Nancy Adam Susan, VLB later moved to 
avoid interference . 



Ell) " OBLIQUE " Mode AM/SSB //S12//G11//M3 

231 is still active and was last heard on FRI at 20.30 4780 moves 
between 3060 4015 4780 & 5050 depending on time of year. Try each 

Friday. 

New 746 reported last issue seems to be in hiding. Last noted on TUE 
at 20.00 4015 and THU 20.30 3060. 

All reports of this family very welcome. 



El 2 N N N Mode AM /M2 

No changes to this station . Still active with excellent signal in 
Europe at following schedule. 

MON 04 00 4573 MED 04.00 4573 THU 04.00 5821 FRI 04.00 4573 

MON 21.00 4644 VED 21.00 4644 THU 20.00 5821 FRI 21.00 4644 

Could any utilities expert please tell me who operates the signal 
which is on 4644 almost non stop in the evenings ? It would be 
interesting to know who operates this data mode signal. 



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El 4 4F ’COUNT CONTROL ' Hade AH /SS/QS 
No longer active. 



E15 PHONETIC ALPHABET - pre NATO Mode AM/SSB 

Reception around Greece reported to be good, can readers in this area 
please confirm, reception in UK very weak. 



E16) TWO LETTER (ENGLISH) Mode SSB // G16 

Good news. Two reports received since last issue when we reported no 
traffic in English. Stations AU - Alpha Uniform and MD - Mike Delta 
are still around. 

AU seems to have a different purpose to other call signs in this set 
up. Transmissions from AU are quite rare but unlike any others m this 
family they appear on 2 // frequencies, usually 4821 and 4888. 
Transmissions always start on the hour and are repeated one hour 
later. Last ID heard was 192. 

Mike Delta is also still around and more details can be found in Simon 
Masons column, along with latest operating schedule. 



El 7 ENGLISH LADY '00000 ' ENDING Mode AM 

Still about but keeping a low profile this odd little station with its 
'00000' would suggest it is part of a much larger family, but we are 
not certain. 

Likes the random approach to transmitting and appears without warning 
at the strangest of times. Only two reports received this time round. 

23.30 5861 calling 932 

16.00 7 MHz area calling 591 

Looking back through old copies of ENIGMA this station has sent 
messages for : 

124 168 208 274 276 34 7 372 482 531 561 636 657 893. • Only 274 seemed 
to ever receive lots of messages, the rest never seem to receive more 
than one message. What does this mean ? Do we really need to know ? 



11.00 18000 BEC 

12.00 17503 WSU 

12.30 11170 MSA 

13.00 11000 BEC 

14.00 14000 FYP 

16.30 6715 NAS 



17.00 14000 FYS 

17.30 5834 MSA 

18.00 5834 USP 

19.00 4130 SAR 

20.00 5530 NAS 

21.00 4130 MSA 



gebhah. language. 

G2 ) SWEDISH RHAPSODY Mode AM/SSB //M4 

For detailed schedule please refer to issue 10. The following notes 
contain additional transnissions noted since issue 10 and als 
frequency changes. 

Me would be interested in hearing from any reader who would like to 
take on the task of monitoring this station. Me °^ provlde .f pe f f 1 
logging sheets for Swedish Rhapsody. The job would be ideal for 
someone with lots of tine and who enjoys complicated schedules . 

CHANGES AND NOTES ONLY - THIS IS NOT A FULL SCHEDULE - USE WITH ISSUE 



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10. 














DAY 


TIME 


FREQUENCY 




1 


2 


3 


SAT 

SAT 


09.00 

12.00 


8188 SSB 
6507 SSB 


ADD 

NEM 

FREQ 


* 3 


*3 




SAT 

SAT 


22.00 

22.30 


3825 SSB 
3825 SSB 


ADD 

ADD 


*3 
* 3 


*3 

*3 




SUN 


12.00 


6507 SSB 


NEM 

FREQ 


*3 


*3 


*3 


SUN 

SUN 


21.00 

21.30 


5340 

4832 AM 


ADD 

ADD 


*1(L 




*1 


MON 


19.00 


5340 


ADD 




*3 




TUE 


23.00 


3825 SSB 


ADD 






*3 


THU 


19.00 


5340 MCM 


ADD 






*3 



*3 



*3 



7314 AM will move to 6200 



Tmnnr-t-nnt note : Monday transmissions on : 

for winter months. Transmissions currently on 6200 will move o 

for winter months. 



Important note : 
for winter month, 
for winter month. 

please send in all logs of this station. Remember Meek 1 starts on the 
Please send in au. « nn transmissions take 



place 


on Friday. 








G4) 3-NOTE ODDITY 


- Mode AM 


//M29A 




Only 


two regular 


slots be 1 ivied to be 


in use at 


MON a 


MED 13.30 


APR ???? 


NAY 5618 


JUNE ???? 


SUN 

SUN 


20.05 

20.35 


APR 4581 
APR 4481 


MAY 4165 
MAY 4065 


JUNE 4340 
JUNE 4240 


SON 

SUN 


20.05 

20.35 


SEP 3931 
SEP 3831 







Stays on CET (Times shown UTC). Transmission will be one hour later in 
winter months. See also sister station M29A - VUE . 



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G5) COUNTING STATION Mode AN //ES/E4 
No reports received, say no* be inactive. 

G6) GERMAN LADY '00000' ENDING Node AN//S6 Family 

Send, .11 nesses “ Sing JAi m ° ."T replTted" It", different 

% \%- 0 00 % fo.fo 10.0 r frenneneies 

SUN 19.00 & 20.00 for winter. 

G7) GERMAN LADY '000 000 ENDS' ENDING Mode AH //S7 Family 

■ „ c tkct-r wroups uses 3F or 4F decode key. Each 
Sends all messages using SINGLE gp ' freqU encies. Nil messages are 
transmission is repeated on 2 furtner 
repeated only once. 

Recent activity noted ; 



AUG 


NED 


05.00 


7763 


9363 10663 


'736' 


JULY 

AUG 


FRI 

FRI 


18.00 

18.00 


9427 

10227 


8127 6927 
9127 ???? 


'419' 

'213' 


JULY 

AUG 


SAT 

SAT 


08.00 

08.00 


10227 


9427 8127 


'149' 


JULY 

AUG 


SUN 

SUN 


07. 00 
07.00 


11145 


12225 13405 


'124 



Two ID 's are 



Gil) STRICH Mode AM //E11//S12//M3 , 

Eegvl.r Slot., dot ehMges tregnener without ..mine 
active at present : 496 A 70*. 

2nd & 4th NED 06.00 6750 or 7580 Calling 496 

weekly the 21.00 ""J 0 " 5 ™ aSU”! 

WEEKLY NED 08.00 6430 or 764 u 

GIB) GERMAN TNO LETTER STATIONS Mode SSB/AM //El 6 

u c?nn Writes" for some further 2 - Letter news. 

gSK/S^SS ZTjTfZrX. .t p»~«. 

it the tine of going to prods only «■ and OS .re entire in Hornes end 
MD A AU in English. 

££ **** 7404 
7532 7661 7752 7858 8063 8173 9040 9325 9450 

}SJg ^775 S i% 4 22 HISS HSlO jgg iSS lSl4 "255 18195 

B Ss^fL^ii^oSTit^ - - •' 



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dlAVTC LA NGUAGES. 

S2) DRUMS & TRUMPETS - Mode AM /El?/M17? 

, ui Find the repeat transmission , the ?i rst 

In May we were at last able . h an Mediate repeat at 

broadcast takes Place at 19 30 on 

approximately 19.45 on 3410. 

„ /-> n t-h* 9th of July and 9th or 

Unfortunately the expected ^f^f/sYble that this station is still 
August did not appear. It 2 f P t date 0 f the month. Any reports 
around but operating on a ditreren 
appreciated . 

S6) <5 57 ; RUSSIAN MEN '00000' & '000 000' ENDING Mode AM 
sudden change. 

„ at n 5 0 0 for '813' heard on 7883 9183 
Possible daily transmission 87 at 05.00 
P a nd 10383 (noted on 9193 on one occasion). 

nr i e t?bt 08 00 8934 sending 

Also S6C sending slPgl * -P^nd oV^Td *08 . 00 8830 sending " 22425. 
message group 1171a. ana on 

. run 19 00 6845 sending ^ uo 
S6B format noted with two group message THU 18.00 

84 6/2 = 11111 00031 . ^ 

S 7 format noted sending 401 * r ° up me ssage ™ ^^642 1 A previous *401 



S8) YT YT YT Mode AM/SSB //M27(BTV) 



O O / i + * ** •T7 

. • _ Bp^eDtion should improve m Europe 
Mo changes to’ the YT operation. Reception 

during the darker winter evenings. 



MON 06.30 4425 

MON 14.00 4 755 

MON 18.00 4425 



WED 06.30 
WED 14.00 
WED 18.00 



4425 
4 755 
4425 



May operate 1 hour later 
in Min ter than shown. 



S12) CHERT A Mode AM //G11//E11//M3 



still active but like all family members is prone to sudden freguency 
changes . 



n.oo ss s 



Call 971 
Call 755 



Si 3 & S14) RUSSIAN COUNTING MEN/NOMEN Mode AM/SSB 

S13) Not noted for some 'time, transmissions are only 2 minutes 
dura ti on . 



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S14) Still a few around. Consists of a repeating loop tape which goes 
oh for hours on end . 

Recent logs have included : 



MON 19.00 4330 Male in AM 

TUE 19.00 3875 'GORA 43 ' 

FRI 22.00 4064 



S16) OLX Mode SSB, Morse Call Up, and //M6 OLX 

Still operating 23 hours per day - The Czech Secret Service are busy ! 

Transmissions start at 5 minutes to each hour for about 20-40 minutes. 
About 50/50 Morse and voice messages. 

To make listening even simpler they are at present using only the 
following frequencies. 



Daily 



17.00 to 22.00 
00.00 to 04.00 

04.00 to 18.00 



5301//9320 //11416 
5301//9320 //. 11416 
8 142// 14977// 18303 



It would be interesting to find out if all 3 
inside the Czech republic. I suspect that at 



transmitters are situated 
least one is not 7 



May change frequencies for Vinter. 

SI 7) CZECH LADY " CONTROL " Mode AM 
Again no changes to this station . 

Daily 13.55 to 14.02 4485/5027 - single 5F message. 



SI 8/1 9) CZECH MAN Mode AM 



No reports received. 



S21) RUSSIAN LADY Mode AM //M45 

Still quite active, although we have not received many reports this 
time round. 



MON 


19. 


45 


TUE 


17. 


40 


THU 


17. 


40 


THU 


19. 


45 



5290 Calling 491 
5740 Calling 342 
5740 Calling 342 
5290 Calling 491 



S25) RUSSIAN MAN " CONTROL " Mode AM /S6 Family 



Daily at 08.00 on 14890 ID always 615. 
08.20 on 11270* 



May not move here if 08.00 message is non - standard, i.e. S25A/B 
11270 may or may not be used thereafter . 



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OTHER LANGUAGES 

V2) SPANISH LADY 2 or 3 FINALS Mode AM //M8 

jssr^sr™ " 

V5A) COUNTING - SPANISH 4F 
Just one report received. 

MON 03.00 6803 

76) SPANISH LADY '00000' ENDING Mode AM //SB Family 
Part of the S6 Family . 

Mies renrfe. tie.. -nd freouenc ies int a Stt ° nS “ 

Europe. 

- - „ „„ ,1 nn Pa 7 ling 834 Frequencies seen random but 

T/J712 % 10 C *\ U %L. «« — ^ "" £er 

jffOJ7£/rs» 

F7; SPANISH MAN ENDS '000 000' Mode AM //S7 Family 
Part of the S7 Family. 

e t_ still is. The station changes 

Tn Mav call '212' became 273 and sziii i*. 

rrnJencyl.oh month md resent logs include . 

ns 20 Mar 9062 June 9142 July 9109 
TUE A THU at approximately 06. ZU nay 

. , „„ run fit- 06 30 on 6780 for 

Also a one off transmission »as noted on THU at 

'519' . 



78) EASTERN MUSIC STATION Mode AM /E9 



Tils station is related to US the 'l*** 1 * F / t ld % °%£i b l. that tie 
ITss^fiTn/dTip^or Iron™ shied are read out in an unusual nanner. 

dorsal reading of tie nneiers 41190 scold ie dOUd Odd Odd didd dddO 

ms station ear read tie nneiers FOdTY Odd - Odd dUdOddd * dlddTT. 

dbioh in Arabia scold be reed dAdID dA AdBAddd - ddAH dA TdSddd. 

This may account for the unusual format. 

(9) Tes-ah. 

Transmissions seem to take place on the first FRI and first SAT of the 
non th\ 

1st FRI 08.20 11290 +/- 5kHz 

1st SAT 18.00 6645 +/- 5khz 



79) ORIENTAL LANGUAGES Node AN 

Radio Pyongyang was noted recently with 3F codes read by nale voice. a 

MED 6520 sign off at 19.45 

6575 was operating the normal Gernan language service at this 

tine. 

Suggest you try el so in mid afternoon on 6250 or 6398 both of which 
have carried numbers in the recent past. 

Other unidentified Far East stations reported have included ; 

TUE 20.00 8973 5 minutes of repeating cycle then sign off 

MON 16.00 8024 'Munzy Too Hi ' Any ideas on this one. 

MON 17.00 8024 'Munzy Too Hi' 

713) HEM STAR BROADCASTING Mode AM 

The only New Star Broadcasting frequency which seems to reach Europe 
with a readable signal is 8300 which can be heard in the afternoon and 
evenings . 

Other known frequencies used by this Taiwan based station are 97^5 
11430 13750 & 15388. 



XPH HIGH PITCH POLYTONE TRANSMISSIONS - Mode AM 



Still some regular tine slots in use. Changes fron Sunner tine back to 
UTC for winter. Frequencies are changed nost months. 



Transmissions noted at 

TUE/FRI 20.00 JUNE 

13442 

11542 

10242 

MED 06. 00 JUNE 

12099 

10399 



TUE/FRI 20.00 JULY 

12219 

11019 

9919 

MED 06.00 JULY 

12099 

10399 



TUE/FRI 20.00 AUG 

10830 

MED 06.00 AUG 

8172 



X6) The 6 Tone repeating stations are still very active. No schedule 
has ever been established. Sone transmissions have been known to 
repeat within the hour. 

It is well worth staying on the frequency once the 6 tone AM signal 
ends. On odd occasions a short string of morse is sent followed by an 
FSK message. This sometimes occurs about 30 seconds after the 6 tome 
signal leaves the air. 



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HEP, the reply can be seen 



a 






In Hay we wrote to the Swiss PTT concerning 
on the next page. 



Direction General De LHnterprise Des PTT. Viktoriastr .21 .CH-3030 
Uireeuxuu BK rmr. Switzerland. 



Dear Sir, tthttma Newsletter, a non-profit naking 

I represent the EHIOMA Mewsxo ' ™ ^ inforBatio n on radio 

association of listeners who nonitor and gatner in 
related natters. 

I would like to ask if it would call-sign HEP. P This call-sign 

TJllZlTeaV Swftze n rl^d C under the International Allocation of 
Call-Signs. 

. . - n c W with the call-sign HEP operates 24 hours per 

day ot S 33U S 5268 8871 and 9186 kHz using a 1 uinute cyolc. 

Would you Please explain the location and purpose of this signal in 
order that we can inform our readers. 

It you also have a contact address for station HEP this uould be .ost 
appreciated . 



Thank you in anticipation of your reply. 



Yours Faithfully, 



Chris A. Midgley for ENIGMA Newsletter. 
May 20th 1996. 

Enel ; 2 IRC s. 






Ihr ZtHChen 
Voire reference 
Vostro riierimemo 

ihre Nachncht vom 
Votre communication du 
Vostra comun*cazione dd 

Urser Zerchen 
Notre reference 
Nostro riferimento 

Sachbearbeiter(in) 
Objet traits par 
Oggeito trattato da 

Datum 

Oate 

Data 



Generaldirektion PTT 
Direktion Radiocom 
Speichergasst 6 
3030 Bern 



20.05.1996 

i <IZ. T3>.4 

Hansueli Brunner 
03.07.96 



Dear Sir, 

Thank you for your letter of May 20th, 1996 requesting information on the station which 
uses the callsign HEP. 

Our law concerning the protection of privacy does not allow us to give you any information 
on the above mentioned station. 

We regret not to be able to provide you with the requested information. 



ENIGMA Newsletter 
do B.R.C. 

attn: Chris A. Midgley 
17-21 Chapel Street 
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 5DT 
England 



sr telecom v 

Fax 031 338 19 10 

Telegramm Gentel 
Postkonto 30-320-6 



Yours respectfully 



Section Radiocom and 
Broadcast licensing 





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I'SJl 



MflBRE STA TION NEWS 



lot- to reoort - -far more than can be put 

As usual, there s a lot to rep are only intended to give 

into a -few pages, so the * the past few months. 

a general summary °\ morse J say whether this activity is 

It is very difficult to say mQre of it than voice, 

increasing, but there is certai^y stations operating at 

Often there may be ld ap piy to almost any time of day. 

the same time, and thi an enQrm ous task, which can really 

Keeping up with all thi ded icating our monitoring to 

only be done properly ^ more systematic approach, 

particular stations an a habits 0 f those stations. The 

^foring^notls^ca^ tS 

, m eiH a list of all my logged M1A/B 
Ml m this issue I have includ clearly shows how varied 

Tend-of -month) transmissions, possible for me to log all three 
they can be. It isn't p °£ip Sv.r this would be very 

of these each month, so ay P n format have been 

welcome . Daily transmissions of simi ^ ^ ^ far 

reported by Costas in these in England. We 

haven't been successful in r^^ ^ ^ heard _ please let us 

wonder where else in Europ transm i SS ions if possible. It is 
know _ with logs of complete trans con fined to Thursday 

interesting to note that element F 9 ^ ^ ^ 30th 

2000 only - as you can see, thr 9 sched ule will change 
August - a record number. Number will be 463 - Sun 

£2°5& su ^ * Th u 20 oo 5 o 17 ^ 8 . t 

1500 6261 kHz. 

Several B network schedules^have^l so^been noted^over^the l^st 

few months: Sat 160 5247kHz 507 (30)- fortnightly, Fri 

OT67kHz Ml (3W, Tta 0709 M47kHz ,15). «»t •' 

doubt*therB 5 *-* >* 

by chance. 

M3 At present aH activity °" f JCgust° Irlt i?01, 

frequencies (<7MHz). ..ca 5625 6850 & 7256. This last 

5090 , 5180, 5360/3 ended IDs using the higher 

one by 532 in May the 50 _ and 55- clusters are not 

freqs (up to likely to return without warning, 

active, howavar, they r. liK«iy QuntBr # ^ , n a constant 

This station, like lts v take place with bewildering 

state of flux and changes take piac^ ^ useful purpose , 

regularity. Put* 1 , 019, 040 (new), 041, 042, 043, 

IDs active: Oil, 01°, ui/, uau. 



IS 



o 



044, 049, 282 (new but part of known cluster 

(new). Activity is still very much confin 
0930 period, however, two new evening slots 
282 on Mon & Wed at 2045 (a most unusual 
doing to make a habit of this it won't hel 
624 on Thu at 2030 on 5635. I don't know 
these transmissions are. Gro ^ p S =? 

usual conservatisms 52 54 53 57 58 58 58 5 

typical sample. Messages seem to appear 
several IDs together - all with similar 6Cs. 
operation. See also Ell, Gil & S12. 



), 552, 621 & 624 

ed to the 0500 
have been found : 
time - if they're 
p us 1 ) on 6850 ana 
yet how frequent 
ce Hay show their 
53 51 56 51 is a 
in flurries for 
A most pecu liar 



M7 Its new and irritating habit of dispensing with the 10 
inTnutes of rapid dashes make this station s ID difficult -o 
"tch, for we only have one minute of 'tone sequence followed 

by^ the ?D three "times. If we find the transmission ^within 

intervals^ be tween h^urs!’ "ZllntSy ^noticed the usual 

determined then by monitoring the correct frequency, 
ready for the expected time, is the only sure way of catching 
M7-s ID. Much more work needs doing to establish. 1 the* 

stations' schedules and scheduling habits more precisely, 2 
the possible explanations for M7's unique 'tone sequences , 

3 - whether there is any pattern in the (occasional?) sending 
of identical messages on both stations. 

M10 See also above. Very active. Many multiple messages 

SSTt, and often much longer than in the past. i.e. 2 

messages of 40 and 51 groups, 3 messages of ^ \ D J 049^ 

ioB ,' , 497 6B4 , 

752 ’ 763 820, 966, 983. On Wed 22.5 at 0630 on 

6780 / /5301 the ’first message^! ^357^ had identical 

firs/timSTlWe noticed this with any numbers station. 



A second varian 
8165//9455 but 
transmission . 
the expected == 
followed by 11 
month for 253, 
However, this 
standard transm 
the agent had 
It is likely th 



t format, M10B, occurred 
unfortunately I missed 
It ended with several 5F 
DK DK GC GC there was a 
1 000. This schedule o 
and repeats on the next d 
variant was npt repeated 
ission was sent. This p 
sent a message back in 
at Monday's message ended 



on Mon 22.7 at 0820 on 
the beginning of the 
groups, and instead of 
pause of about 30 secs 
perates two weeks per 
ay, same time & freqs. 

on the Tuesday and a 
robably indicates that 
the intervening period, 
normally, and an 



\(D 






operational code o-f some kind followed (e.g. 33 w>) t ^ s 

aSdi“on.l short was ~"t without DK or SC. It 



to repeat this additional 
M10 is now worth monitoring 
as is also M13 just in case 
M7 and M10 may be Slovak as 



clearly no longer necessary 
information the following day. 
all the way through to the end, 
they turn out to be B variants, 
oppose to Czech operations. 

n? Juries “« V ;ii* 2 “ U U; ^ 304 slf M 

S' «. « tSS 3 

%:%% % r 0 r„r^ ei " 9 

888 . 999 only popped up once ( . ) on 14. P 

.-h = * t-hic station is the morse counterpart 
M13 It now appears that this station is _ Mason's 

?; lt : 9 ^:., o, s4 •*:£: 

si is "ninisns 

is possible that Ml P their serial numbers (unique 

u-nss- .s^i: 

Hr £ if 

oi M13, at least mon ths old in December, 

•youngest ID, 865 , would^b^ „ as 001 . On the other 

handt'these numbers could begin at, say, 100, which would make 
86^ theoretical ly 44 months old, in which case it look. 

station, and is active several times daily. 

n onth Mm (1900* 10244kHz) a 50 group message was sent to 

MO ?hi» i. i y^ry high 6C tor M13 which nearly always sends 
11% Ira % Th.ir Y =tt?n non-randon nature can be -^fron 
looking at this particular message, which beg , 
and ended, 00150 05009. 

ni4 Very active a. Iways. . ■”* “2" III 

«“ip£l^ir‘t.T. ?A\ £ j*J ougust a 

si is »f"*"°'' l ^f h °'sr-"!t’.“ays 

000 . min *I ^ha^never *”»»' to%^d Message, and its only 
other characteristic is a continuous string of Vs. V 



17 



“.“"u “oil 

7th July 2050 5180kHz. (all regular M3 freqs. ) 

«23 .t pr.«t *««*. «* Trll *2SS! 

in.xplic.bl. Jr.ntlc ^rstt o» V transmission, .r. 

to the end of July. wnene k parallel freqs. Several 

daily, at same time and on %* P^.* 1 period . As an 

overlapping networks °P® ra slot 6918//6920kHz . From 

example, one of these used i me ssage, using the 

2nd May (or «r »rl xt the all-even ID, 268 

arbitrary all-odd ID, 35V. This same message was 

resuited in a 34 jr™P m month finishing on 22nd June, 
repeated da i ly . for exactly from 2 4th June to 

There was no transmission o t (call 268 again). After 

2nd July a 29 group message was sent ot ^* U netwQr k S operating 
this date this network cease . afc; 0800 i 0 775//11346, 

during this period we JI!! 07 ° , , B69 1300 6918//6290 and 1700 at 

rVT/iS/Mslo 1 ^ Zo??, til* Cstls us.d Ull »srsiy ss 
first 6918//6920, later . atars , were as varied as usual: 

message or no-message *"P* cat ot= = 55 First and last groups 

nzi zizzirz: g :rrr.nv .. < 0 ™ ».°oo. » 

most interesting and entertaining station. 

M7 , K1<N50 is stin around - I heard it for the first time in 
Sy months on 14th August at 0500 on 6923kHz. (call only, 

T . ti oo station" returned after a long absence as 

M26 The 98 Static to its name any more, 

predicted, however, it s not 1 l v g P It was being 

On Wed 14.8 I came across it at 1940 on oi ^ want of a 
much more adventurous than usu . I opting 

better term) avoided the use of 98 for the . also 

for 99, 95 and, most unexpectedly, ^ 6^ a sample of 

departed from the usual 17111 t . V 10524> 9 9 10524, 99 

its tedious output: 99 50524 , 90 i^ , on for 

00510, 95 12345, 99 9?I. being closest to 

hours as usual. As 1 always followed by 12345. Rather 

pointless^H^ d'have^ 5 thought - but who are we to Judge the 
meaning behind their madness? 

M29 VDE not heard since J da ^“ C °oimenciig Y "on* Monday and 
though. Messages were da Y* reo i ace d each Monday. The 

remaining the same all week, being replace ea ^ peated ^ 1900 . 

first transmission went out at 1 ’ s ? art of each month. 

Oust lik. 04, 1 1700 I kn~n. 1900 4620. 

For the record, these were. «prii , 900 4770 , 0n 

May 1700 4869, 1900 4640, June 1700 5120, lvuu 



1700 transmission was reported on 5405 



Friday 21st June 
another network? 

2‘v^jr- f r i:.~£ 

have similarities with FDC * /®L/* 0 ns always consist of six 

by French intelligence Transmissions ^ V ^ ^ ^ 

messages - flve * t constantly alternating in this way. 

figure messages the next, const y seem tQ have two 

The two different typ letter messages are preceded by 

different purposes - only th 1 ^ 69 60//5760 daily at 

date/time^ groups. Still^iii in fche next issue. Many 

thanks go to Guy of Portsmouth for his dedicated monitoring. 

M39 Like M23 and M26, this is a "° t ^^°^ 1 3 F al ID. St lt i has 
Each time it «PP^ rs ^ always us ^ ^ assQciated with 

similarities withS25 m ^ format would be , 746 746 

several single 5F groups. VP times then a sudden 

- 746 20032 20032 20032 Repeated several ti t ^ 746 2274 9 

break into a string of ga f ^ 91313 (ending with a 

22749 22749 etc, 746 746 746 91313 913 on Thu 9th 

final burst of dashes). This 0700 5027 937- 

May at 0800 on 6*36. 0^/5017 191 - 62845 , 98886 , 14759 , 60453 ; Tue 
49125.,.., Fri 25.5 0600 5017 191 ^ date 2 020 648- 

11.6 1900 5530 ••V® 6 ?: 9 ' 03 ^00 5110 421-68237,95046; 

0xxx8, 84026,08752; Wed 1 * 7 _ 34 qo 3 ,61428 Not all of these 

c!Sute L ■ ; ; ; ’LiHhLlT £r^=r;il 

«tri»e l r 2 n 2 o»n.« r 'of this station, both in ^.doling and lb 
content. Any logs would be appreciated. 

That'. ,11 th. news this 

isSv.r*sr«^ stations toi 

and schedules not. mentione a (included under 

s: 5 ."&, ss.'sk: 1 ^:’ u, — ... 

past few months, M42, M43 & M45. 

M>L SLHFM activity is much the same a*^ ast T the* 'R - 

counted 19 /brief flirtatation with 6390kHz, then 

marker on 3196 had a b returned to 3196. During this 

after a few days at the m , rem ained where they were. 

The relatively there. At around the same time the 3323 

bid cSrp similar to that of th. pl.intiv.- 



la 



, . . | . _ n taoi which has suffered from this complaint 1 

sounding L on 3091, which „ ot unuSual for these 

,or year, now, on J£qu.n "f.r.nt frequencies: 3323 moved 

1 n ° h! V ft r..e,. been on 3174, moved there a 

coup 1 e^of ' years ago from 9162kHt. What doe, all thi, mean? 

•p. markers and the solitary 'C' markers tend to be short- 
p markers, fallowed by a few groups in morse and a 

1 t ve ^ fro/of FSK RTTY . The others, including the clustered 
S C° r and U ' S ' s never seem to do anything but bleat out their 
"ID" for 24 hours a day! 

ADDITIONS AND ALTE R ATIONS TO CHECK-L I . S X 

E6A - 2 group commencihg 11111 eit her £ E6 or both . 

E20 - 2 message, dual voice ver^xu.. 

All these could be variants of the same statio . 

£21 — 4F counting, English accent 
A - American accent 
G5A - " Zwei " variant 

G9 B - Change to^Saxaphone piece' (G20 includes Jazz Players!) 

G13 - 3/2 group variant 
G14A - non-phonetic variant 
G15A - P N read over notes 
G20 - "Spruch" 

A - one 5F group 
G21 - Music and morse 

G22 - "Edna Sednitzer" - German version 

G23 - 2M8, Hitler's birthday (Langley Pierce) 

S2C - 3F Nomer, then reversed 
D - 5F Nomer 
S2B - delete: see Xi 
S6C - Continuous 5F 
D - ID + ill 
E - two message 

p - 00000 00000 ( a possible error) 

c i on — five note intros. (3 versions) 

lt 7 A - no circuit number, positioning index or group cou 
B - 01 GC 
C - 313-5F 

524 - delete: a variant voice of 56 

S26 - "Zyt! Zyt!" ("Hush! Hush!") - Polish language 
VIA - with additional tune 
V17 - Romanian 3F + 000 
V18 - NNN Hungarian 

wiq - U1TR91 r "Don't Cry for Me Argentina ) 

^0B - -5tri group, , end. 111 000 (complete format not yet 

M 24 e ! m delete: same as M14, but with long end dashes 

M48 - "Ciocirlia" morse version 
- GSA morse version 
XI - Bugle (formerly S2B) 

FULL LIST WITH NEXT ISSUE 



20 



9 



, ^3 2 - THE 14403kHz NETUORK ( concluding parti - by M.G. 

In ENIGMA Newsletter 9, we introduced the highly 
Russian morse net, M32. In this feature, the transmission 

structure itself will be analysed. 

Each message consisted of up to ten elements excluding^ the 
call: A - a random 3F group, probably the decode key. B ^a 2 

or 3F group representing the approximate group count. C a 

2F date group, (date of message origin). D - a 4F time g P> 

always between 0800 & 1400 and timed to the minute 

hours?). It bore no relation to time of 

probably indicates time of origin of message. E - a repeat of 

the decode key. F - an optional Z-code group, those used in 
tne aecoue g - a 3F group which 

the sample being: ZLA, ZAY, Zbr o< tuu * . 

is occasionally identical in two cosecutive message 

transmissions - probably the link number. H - an °P x ° na ^ 
group consisting of 3, 4 or 5 Ps . This may indicate reply 

priority or message urgency. I - the 5L message proper. J - 

either ending AR or a further 3F group followed by K • 
reply. This group is related to the date of origin, and is 
identical for 2 or 3 messages together. It is probably 

encryption key for encoding the recipient's reply. In the 
single case where a reply was not required, this group was not 
sent. Break codes (=) were sent between elements E & F , G 
H , H & I and I & J • 

A most bizarre peculiarity was the group count given which in 
only one case was correct! Deviation from the correct number 
of groups varied between +9 and -10. There is no doubt that 
the 2 or 3F element 'B' was related to the group count, as l 
all cases true group counts were high relative to this 
deviation. (over 100 in most messages). Short of the 

operator/s being accused of miscounting on , ou _ 

occasions, I can only conclude that these approximate g o p 
counts are not errors. But why send them deliberately. 

Here is the first message, as it was sent on 24th Sept 
GD7U GD7U GD7U DE HRHG HRHG HRHG QTC K < sent S times, the last 
time without the K) 867 180 24 1004 867 = ZLA 499 - PPPPP (189 

5L groups followed, not 180) = 200 K 

The following messages were (actual GC in brae ke ts ) : - 

24.9 0704 - L22Y-HRHG 995 160 24 1054 995 ZAY 458 PPPPP (151) 

27?9 K 0906 - ZAND-HRHG 658 32 27 1200 658 - 900 - (31) 

1^10 0700 - PLGW-L97M 810 87 1 0955 810 - 749 PPP (85) 

0 1 72 10 K - NJQ5-L97M 886 176 1 1032 886 - 749 PPPP (173) 072 K 

1.10 0800 - WEQA-L97M 363 192 1 1038 363 - 173 - (193) 

1U10 - NSMC-ZYDR 335 47 11 1304 335 ZGF 607 PPPP (43) 249 

11.10 - VWB7-ZYDR 888 132 11 1306 888 - 202 PPPPP (134) 249 

J 4 .10 0654 - S4NA-ZYDR 453 162 14 0939 453 - 240 PPPPP (161) 



21 



478 K 
17.10 


0900 - MSLW-ZYDR 


644 


186 


17 1047 644 


- 


205 


PPPPP 


(196) 


123 K 
19.10 


0700 - NSMC-ZYDR 


441 


64 


19 


0498 


441 


ZOU 422 


PPPPP 


(72) 


488 X 
20.10 


0600 - 7AD3-ZYDR 


861 


106 


20 0838 861 


- 


736 


- 


(102) 


958 K 
22.10 


0600 - YEF2-KGA7 


518 


132 22 


0839 


518 


- 


114 


- 


(135) 


253 K 
22.10 


0820 - YEF2-KGA7 


174 


182 


22 1109 174 


- 


114 


PPPPP 


(185) 


253 K 
24.10 


0530 - VGMI-KGA7 


079 


136 


24 


1054 


079 


- 


803 


PPPPP 


(132) 


803 K 
25.10 


0730 - X3Z1-KGA7 


522 


109 


25 


1004 


522 


- 


818 


PPPP 


(107) 


145 K 
25.10 


0830, - X3Z1-KGA7 955 159 25 


1008 


955 


- 


685 


PPPP 


(160) 


145 K 
26.10 


- BZ3G-KGA7 592 


166 


26 


1133 


592 


- 


761 PPPPP ( 166) 860 


K 

27.10 


- K7G2-KGA7 040 


142 


27 


0914 


040 




665 


PPPPP (135) 876 



K 



The 4th message (30th Sept) differed from the others:- 
I 77V L22Y L22Y DE HRHG HRHG HRHG QTC K ^ 

421 150^0 1057 421 - ZRK 876 = AFUD JCHA ... . • . 0™? « 
WWWWWWWVWWWVW QSA? K QSVC . K QSV , 10 

— 3 » 530 .'*» - 

( 5L message, around 169 groups) AR 



Similar nets are still operating all 
anybody monitor them? 



over the HF bands. 



Does 



12 



M1A/B TRANSMISSIONS 



MONTH & 

TIME 

.199 4 



JUN 

JUL 

.AUG 

AUG 

SEP 



20 

20 

18 

20 

18*M1? 



SEP . 20 
OCT 20 



..NOV 

NOV 

DEC 

DEC 

1995 

JAN 

JAN 

FEB 

FEB 

MAR 

MAR 

APR 

APR 

MAY 

MAY 

HAY 

JUN 

JUN 

JUN 



18 

20 

18*M1 

20*M1 

18 

20 

18 

20 

18*M1 

20*M1 

18 

20 

18 

20 

15 

18 

20 

15 



SCHEDULE 
NUMBER I 

025 

025 

025 

025 

463 

463 

463 

197 

197 

197 

197 

197 

197 

197 

197 

463 

463 

463 

463 

025 

025 

025 

025 

025 

025 



(ELEMENT)' 

A1/A2 

1 12728 

| 11301 

! (5- fig missed) 

I 12059 

i 

| 51026 

48320 
88014 
87031 



53451 

38668 

88124 

88901 



B1/B2 

333 11386 
333 11554 

333 (5 fig missed) 
333 12666 

333 51794 
333 47298/48471 
333 88656 
333 87708 



111 64131/333 61423 
333 37395/36238 
333 88594 
333 88729 



c 


? 1 D 

!- - * 


E 1 

j 




F 


G 

I 




; 111 999 


425 40 




- 


111 000 


777 06 333 10 


i 


j 




- 


111 000 


_ 


'ill 999 


; 498 40 ; 




- 


111 000 


_ 


' 111 999 


298 40 j 




- 


. Ill 000 


_ 


- 


j 418 40 j 




- 


■ 111 000 




_ 


i 

1 ” 1 




- 


1 111 000 




_ 


! 




- 


i in ooo 

l 


; 333 08 16 


- 


1 




- 


1 111 ooo 


| 333 14 


; 111 999 


1 183 38 

j 


| 111 


32931 


111 ooo 


_ 


- 


I 540 40 




- 


j ooo 


- 


; 


j 038 40 


j 


- 


; 000 


; 040 


; 


j 


i 


- 


I 111 ooo 


! 040 


i 


t 


! 


- 


; in ooo 


! 333 14 






1 


- 


j 111 ooo 


i 


: 111 999 


! 729 32 


; 111 


o 

o 


[111 ooo 



i 239 40 





i 


- 


| 


831 42 


j - • 


59529 


| : " j 


333 10 12 


: 


- 


; 


59997 


s • 


111 77 55 


j 111 999 ; 

i .! 


173 15 


| 


11759 


333 11292 


020 16 19 






j 


10252 


333 11564 


333 07 


j 111 999 I 

; 


! 611 30 

! 


; 111 (5 fig missed) 


12609 


333 12202/12840 


333 16 


' 1 


- 


! | 


12967 


333 12279 


- 


j 


1 


1 

! 


12616 


333 12447 1 


- 


111 999 | 


j 612 40 


j 


11043 


| 333 11619/111 11890 j 

! • i 






i 


i 



i 000 
000 

111 000 
111 000 
111 000 
* 111 000 
! ui ooo 
111 000 
111 000 
111 000 



MIA/P TRANSMISSIONS 



MONTH & 

..TIME i 

JUL 18 


SCHEDULE 

NUMBER 

025 


A1/A2 ; 

13447 


B1/B2 
333 11309 


JUL 


20 


025 


11020 


333 11840 

i 


JUL 


15*M1 | 


025 


; 


„ 1 


AUG 


18 


025 


12345 


333 12051 


AUG 


20 


025 ' 


12767 


333 12467 


AUG 


15 


025 


12345 


333 12146 

1 


SEP 


18 -•-'MI 


463 


- 


i 

i 


SEP 


20*M1 


463 j 


- 


I 


SEP 


15*M1 


463 


- 


i 


OCT 


18 


463 


| 50033 


333 50574 


OCT 


20 


463 


j 50323 


333 50035 


OCT 


15 


463 


■ 52723 


333 51575 


NOV 


18 


j 197 


| 88175 


333 88806 


NOV 


20 


j 197 


j 88702 


333 87674 

1 


NOV 


15*M1 


197 


i 


i “ j 


DEC 


1 8*M1 


197 




i _ ; 

: i 


DEC 


25 


197 


| 87316 


I 333 86641 


DEC 


15 


197 


80308 


333 89103 


1996 
JAN 18 


197 


- 


333 89011 


JAN 


20 


197 


89122 ; 


; 


JAN 


15 


197 


j 


i _ : 


FEB 


20 


197 


88875 


333 87646 


FEB 


15 1 


1 197 j 


| 89522 ! 


333 89309 


MAR 


18 


463 | 


! 59531 


333 50836 


MAR 


20 


463 ! 


50033 


333 50430 


MAR 


15 


463 


51722 


333 51124 



C 



333 8 11 



333 5 7 



333 489 



333 09 



1111 999 ! 416 42 

j , 472 40 

; 111 999 ! 791 40 

| 

i 

; 224 40 
; i 985 42 

! 216 40 

’ill 999 i 131 39 



: ill 999 j 301 40 
131 40 
707 40 
ill 999 : 367 40 



| 



. Ill 



• 111 02113 



| 111 25892 



111 98258 



G 

'■ 111 000 
; 111 000 
J 000 
: 111 000 
111 000 
111 000 
• 000 
i 000 
1 000 
j 111 000 
111 000 
111 000 
111 000 
111 000 
000 
000 

111 000 
111 000 



93419 13491 



■111 




762 


20 






504 


40 


i 111 


999 : 


201 


40 


i 

; 111 


999 


979 


36 


! in 


999 


936 


34 


i 

n i 


999 


713 


40 



1 1 1 000 

111 73068 111 000 

000 
000 

1 1 1 000 
1 1 l 000 

in 54113 35546 111 000 



1 l 1 000 



JHct / 





Ml A/D TRAMS 


MISSION.; 




month & 


SCHEDULE 




Bl/12 


TIME 




A1/A2 


APR 18 


463 


51150 


. 333 51715 


ArR 20 


463 


50644 


: 11.1 50130 


APR 15 


463 


50395/51814 


- 


HAY 18 


; 025 


11719 


333 12269 


HAY 20 


025 


11219 


333 12532 


JUN 18 


025 


12257 


333 12969 


JUN 20 


025 


12577 


333.11316 


JUN 15 


025 


11759 


1 333 11199 


JUL 18 


025 


11167 


j 333 11469 


JUL 20 


025 


11404 


! 333 10292 


JUL 15 


025 


13821 


333 13516 


AUG 18 


025 






AUG 20 


025 






AUG 15 


025 






SEP 18 


463 




j 


SEP 20 


463 






SET 15 


: 463 




i 


OCT 18 


463 




1 


OCT 20 


463 






OCT 15 


463 






NOV 18 


; 197 






NOV 20 


! 197 






NOV 15 


197 






DEC 18 


; 197 




• 


DEC 20 


197 







s 



c 


D 


(message ) 




F 




G 

A 


_ 


’ 111 999 ; 


361 43 




- 


Ill 


000 


333 4 8 


111 999 ; 


168 30 




_ 


: 111 
: 111 


000 

000 


333 08 13 


111 999 | 


634 30 


‘ 111 


35712 94013 • 


; in 
HI 


000 

000 


333 15 16 


j 

i 


- 




- 


; 111 


000 


- 


111 999 ! 


636 40 




- 


i 111 


000 


333 12 

333 12 333 16 


1 

111 999 ! 

'} " | 


281 20 


! 


- 


! ill 
: ill 


000 

000 




111 999 j 


971 40 


Ill 


o 

O' 

CO 

O' 


ill 


000 


_ 


111 999 ; 


157 35 




- 


: 111 


000 



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i 

I 

I 

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Ml 3 TIME SCHEDULE 



ID/Call Serial (Dec 96) Sun 



125 

134 

149 

155 (OOC) 

163 (000) 

201 

203 

206 

224 

245 

246 
254 
261 
271 
2 72 
281 
284 

346 

347 

352 

353 
367 
369 

387 (000) 

411 

415 

417 

419 

421 

427 

458 

491 (000) 
497 (000) 
517 
522 
563 
590 
629 
679 
703 
714 
732 
735 
751 
757 
781 
803 
823 
826 
831 
842 

864 

865 
903 
926 
967 



( 000 ) 



150 

149 

9 

153 

173 

147 

147 

149 
153 
153 

151 
157 
167 

153 
177 
160 
147 
145 

145 

152 

150 
149 

159 

154 
172 

7 

147 

149 

147 

146 

147 

153 
168 

152 

149 

160 
168 

150 
159 
156 

147 

148 

153 

151 
172 
147 
174 
147 
147 
150 
156 

147 
144 

148 
147 

149 



Hon 

22 

04 

20 



Tue 



'Jed 



21 



08 



19 20/21 



Thu 



21 



21 

05 

073 

21 

19/222 

21 

21 

21/22 

073 



Fri 



Sat 



21 



21/213 05 

19 

21/22/23 21 

20 



21 

21 



21 


21 




043/213 






19/20 19/20 


20/21 


9 




233 




211 

043/23 


20 




20 


20 




20/21 


19/20 


21 


20/21/22 


19 


17 


04 






215 


23 






21 


21 




22 


22/23 




22 


06 




07 


07/123 



22 



20 20/21 
21 

05 

20 



21 



17 



20 



21 



22 



19 17/18/183 



215/225 



203 



193 



04 



20 

22 



053 



20 
22 , 

15 

06 16 



.20 



04 



All ,«rl.l numbers ere projected to December 1996, whether IDs .re entire or not. ID, 

cover the Deriod July 93 to July 96. where alternative times are given for the same day 
SRese may either refer to seynal change or two separate transmlsslonson same day. 

(000 s ) X"0 > Mi'iA olso . 



Letters to E.N.I.G.M.A. 



Voloant* to lawuw 11, congratulation* if you apottod our dolibarato 

■intake in isslle 10. Yea we forgot to put a 10 on the cover. Sorry. 

We have had lots of great letters and comments and it is difficult to 
know where to begin ! 

. . , m Mixed views continue to be 

First a few comments a ^° ut < . h ^" J ir j° ' COIies the comment that ENIGMA 
received. Fro. Oswestry in . Shropshire coues^tne^ ^ detail . Mean- 

should cover a snaller numb layout of issues 1 & 2 which he 

while Alan in Solihull pre ^®. . . Another valued reader says 'a 

ote£« e ?ySe f ;ce 0 nighrbe C better as I an not as young as I was in the 
Cold War' ! 



is Jonathan in Zinbabwe who says 
I guess a lot of infornation can 



Bub on the other side of the fence 
'the printed fornat is very good and 
be packed in this way 

• . are trying to keep a olos. eye on the type face, 

te"n“o newsletter with aeenr.te infornation. 

Another subject which carries j^sSttSf as ll s“™ ?“"» 

Book to Oswestry t t ^°” ith i3sue Ho. 4. The descriptions such as H10 
or"™ doA-t auoh^ . Also Lars in Ger.any asks for an explanation 

of the codes. 

„ . 'Pol- nnnes ' I hope you do not decide to 

Mike in a *?° inclusion of these, the ENIGMA numbering system is a 

dispense with the inclusion . - data bases, but not having a 

good one and_ ideal Tor°ur p ^ friend to those of us who have 

'Tit " fir ye^s Ton Sannot allow the. to be d.huaanised and 
de-ronanticised into a code nunber. 

Even now stations appear sore alluring a g^^yg 6 &S ’ Cherry 

Ripe and Bright Ho Ha. Where's the romanticism m E4 & 79. 

_ . p.l«rifv first voice stations. Faced with a huge 

«ou S of both historical eredi? fo? this >. 

way of getting it under °° ptr __„4. fi „ g i ona i s we introduced a language 
~ Following the lines of the pr further by fornat type. We do 

.SlnSSf 'S5fSnt“ voices used by the same station over a period 

of time. 

'"St; this was^the starting point. It i^not idenSLTle 

all the old pet names but . ± ti So Lincolnshire Poacher will 

S-if - - -.-ntion Which he 

13 not 

Kg«i“ «fho"n«. would see, nnlikely to bo Betty ! 




ess interesting but, in 
correct identification, 
certain German language 
'endings' 00000 or 000 
G7 . 

so few clues. Haking up 
task of sorting out one 
morse format charts are 
in making a correct 



I agree that some stations now Bound rather 1 
certain cases it is the safest way to gain a 
For example ; if you are not familiar with 
stations which sound pretty similar then the 
000 will make all the difference between G6 4 
Morse stations are an even bigger problem with 
an ever increasing proportion of traffic the 
station from the other is very difficult. The 
the best way we can come up with t to help 
identification . 

So I hope that is of some help and reassurance. We want you to enjoy 
ENIGMA and we are not trying to nake it difficult, but m the nane of 
accuracy we are trying to get the subject under control. 

Staying on a similar subject Lars in Finsterwalde , Germany & Vassily 
in Moscow both ask why so many stations speak the numbers m different 
ways to every day speech. 

The first part of the answer is to do with short wave reception. Words 
can easily be mis-heard and so nearly all German language stations 
seem to use Svo for 2 because Zwei sounds like Drei over the air. The 
more difficult part of the answer concerns the odd pronunciations. 
This is caused by none native speakers reading the numbers. So you 
have peculiar corruptions to familiar words with Polish announcers 
reading German and Hungarians reading English . The results are 
sometimes less than satisfactory and it 13 a wonder that agents know 
whether to blow up the bridge or go to the dinner party . 

On now to the subject of books. Tony in York wrote to tell me that 
'The Hobbyists Guide to Comint Collection 4 Analysis which was 
reviewed in issue 10 is available in the UK. Details can be obtained 
by contacting Lowe Electronics, Chesterfield Road, Matlock, 
Derbyshire. Telephone UK 
01629- 580800. 



Tony also nentions the 'Audio Guide to SW Sounds 
available fron Interproducts, 8 Abbot Street, Perth, 
£4.95 inc postage with over 30 sounds in all. 



; a cassette 
Scotland. UK 



Simon Mason told me about a new book called 'The Ultimate Spy Book' by 
H Keith Melton. It contains several pages showing spy radios and one 
time pads. UK price is about £16. Me will try and obtain more details 
on this, if any reader purchases a copy we would appreciate a review 
and ISBH details. 

Jonathan in Zimbabwe is reading a book called "Every Spy a Prince 
billed as the Ho.l book about Israel's Secret Intelligence Agencies 
and the “Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community . Of 
interest are rather short descriptions of how communications are 
maintained with field agents in various instances, including coded 
messages broadcast during an apparently normal Israel Radio 
transmission, a female agent in Beirut who sent messages back to HQ by 
using a favourite piece of Mossad technology, an aiiazingly tiny ra 10 
set, also an agent in Egypt who carried around a transmitter in the 
heel of his shoe ! 



The book is written by Dan Raviv 4 Yossi Helman, published by Houghton 
Mifflin ISBH 0-395 58120-6 (paperback) 473pp. 



23 



A few quick mentions to regular contributors Vassily in ^ 

Ian in Scotland who tells me his prehistoric typewriter went the way 
of the pterodactyls and is now working on his new HP. Greetings to Jin 
in Strathkiness, Ivan in St . Petersburg & Ken in Doncaster, and Hans in 
Trier, Germany. Thanks to everyone for the logs news and information. 

Hi now to Ton in the USA. Sorry we could not fit your letter in last 
time around. Tom mentions stations V2 & H8 which he is convinced are 
related (Ed. They are) He tells us that he heard the voice station 
sending a normal message but with M8 in the background of the YL 
sending CW 5F cut numbers. When the YL went off air, so did the Horse 
signal, even though it did not sign of with its usual AR AR AR SK SK 

SK. This was a problem with the mixing, not two stations on the 

frequency. 

We are very interested in comments concerning a station heard in 
America with the call sign P7X (this station uses a similar format as 
P8K) which pops up from time to time sending 120 Sroup messages wi 
high-speed data transmissions between messages. The preambles 
always the same : WV DE P7X IIPII 140230 GR 120 BT, then goes into 
120 group message. The group 140230 is the date an d tine. This 
sends two messages an hour, repeating each one, for a total of four 

transmissions an hour. The station uses one frequency, sending 

messages none stop for several hours. This will occur for about three 
weeks, when the station disappears for a while. It will then appea 
later on another frequency, where the whole process starts over again. 

I have heard this is some kind of training activity, (interesting) but 
I can't speculate on who would be using this station. Frequencies 
noted in Worth America are 3278, 4440, 5125 5397 & 5431. I have also 

heard this station using call signs E91 & K3C. (Ed. It is believe 

be French). 

Finally, Tom mentions our feature on New Star Radio in issue 9. In the 
"Looking East" column it was stated that the New Star station had 
□oor reception in SB Asia on 8300 kHz. I thought I should inform you 
that I was in the Philippines in 1990, the 8300 !^ z Ration h ]j£ * 
tremendously strong signal. The carrier stayed on 24 hours per 
and was, in fact, a nuisance when trying to listen to signals close 
the frequency. 

My thanks to Brian in Crawley, your comments are * 1 ™?* ' 

Brian mentioned our recent piece concerning Radio Northsea 
International. He says he was unaware of Bollier s involvement in the 
Lockerbie incident, and several of the other connections you ®®ntion- 
As one of those dedicated listeners I do r emember lining to RHI 
all the time it was being jammed, and in particular the time when 
tried constantly to change its frequency to avoid the jamming, only to 
have the powerful government transmitter sweep over it after about 10 
seconds of returning to the air on a new frequency. 

The one incident that always stayed in my mind over the pirate ships 
saga was the total about-turn made by the opposition once they were 
elected as the new government, over their election pledge 
stations. The suggestion was, that once in power, they had access to 
secret papers which were not available to them while in opposition, 
and that this information was of such importance that they were forced 
to change their policy. 



Zd 



Th. subject of BKI aud th. eepiouad. cennectUu 

£%?«*£. -or,. (It is not -«...) 

Another of our regular contributors is^it. indent. I 

S S5l°S'l2« section^ -c.rnini ( the «(« “^fS" 

have read, "Is it a propagational narfcer ( anu uuu 
propagational marker . Sorry. 

Mike is interested in hearing fron °^®^ h “®g^°^g e ti n g e of members every 
SJ non t hs b o r ^so 1 t o^ have S a" “ wo r kshop “ - Please write to Hike via HHIGMA 
and we will pass on your letters. 

Another regular reader unites to say th— afunS^out'mipionago in 
Hether lands a feu seeks ago and they sere talking jjD^ th , t ae ,eral 

the Bosnian War. They said, althoug fron Croatia and had 

people had been jailed for espionag h ha d worked for 

ar sss 

passed* secrets^ fST^iTS* CrS ti -^1, technical data, 
particularly concerning their arms pastry. but there 

Details were few as the cases had been £®^" d s *^Xi a cross borders 

natnre°according journalists although the details u.r, 

sketchy and the broadcast was hard to hear. 

_ - c^^^y . n n HoiH e n Thank you for the comprehensive 

Hello now to Peter m Saffro • date on a good selection of 

logs and information. Peter keeps Station. He nentions some recent 
stations including the K5 n C °^a A oril 8 transmission 6970//8143 he 
errors in transmissions. On "726'‘ when the voice went off 

tuned in just after the hour for call ™ second, which 

air and was replaced by a Jone puised at^bout d J the oall 

irffoa^te-bSUiSrS; start until 18.16 6TC. 

On April 24 the 8116 kHz t ^ ans “ 1S gg°” al ”y S this^woul^be in the pre- 
but already in the 5F message followed by "Count 196" 4 a 

amble. The repeat came at 13.05 J™, n 23 noisy carrier went off 

second reading of 3F - ^f the frequencies on which I heard 

an^ audio" tone along' w!£i seSaral other H5 frequencies at approximately 
08.00 on Monday 11 March. 

After the transmission on 8116 had ended 4 2 

13.23, after a few .inatas tto same data signal 

at 13 - 2 ^. no 5^" g R T?y i heard something like this before during 

thfrinte^evening on' several frequencies in the 4 4 5 MHz region. 

Ed note. One theory is that E5 fo “® a ^go Be time just prior to 

transmitter sites in a conpresse , into the messages which we 

J-^ouud- to B = 

messages, and poor audio quality. 



3o 



Pester aleo cements about the ^eltuTe filmed been nade of 

didn't realise until last „ y ®^ H »o inl£ of Spies” and was nade in 1963 
^activities. It f«J Ring ^ wag also published) I 

in black % white. (Kd^i^book j happened to see it quite by 

chanc^one 0 afternoon on Channel 4 about 18 nonth ago. 

Kaiin Elsterwerda wrote a detailed 

Tyrolean "Ministeriua^fOr^Staatssicherheit" (MfS)i of the Cernan 

DftMOOratic^Republio. Rubber tranujissiona of^th. id6 3 .„ral 

fro» Koniga MasterhauBen.so h kB short-wave) this site ha 

broadcast transmitter (include ir ?£. One of the services these 

some 20 kW utility tr “®“ lt ^eAtenfOhrstationen” (agent command 

transmitters ca *F* ed f ]! aS utility^services from Konigs 
.„Hnns1 fro* the Ufa. u r 1 ^’ r* in man All transmtters were 
llTllteir shut-down on WJJ90. ^ , g a little 

dismantled. The former ®£j lx g s nunbe r transmissions alB ° °“* £ r “ 

rite U ‘r,“d Magdeburg. *The Sur^^Soldaianaender 

ssj-SS 1-^-“ 

tranaaittera can °^^ k “ t ? ta !£5tter at tha station in Burg, near 
Q .,c» guame from a 250 kw _ . n n rtf there was not ever a 

Magdeburg. According to “ r „L.!«era for 261 kHz Long 

short wave transmitter, on y 
Wave and Medium Have. 

In the past Burg h » d ^o 2S0^kW ^ium^wave Jransmi ic?”ly°declared^s 

r'rrr^. i ^ ^^“sssjsi 9 ?ooo » 

“Soldatensender 935^. Fro 197 ^ transmitters are now opera e 

transmitter on 783 KHZ, ana uu 
on^57 A 1575 kHz respectively. 



This transmitter is still in 



Burg also carried Radio Volga on 261 kHz 

xxafsstss fsrai. wa — 



_ t b«vf» received several letters, with 

K1Q} Station message strings. under-Lyme and Brian in Crawley 

52l£ S Michael in message strings from the 

concerning my requert for in D18 D18. I am preparing a ^® a ^ ur ® 

BIO stations, e.g. VLB D14 readers would like to contribute copy 

these for issue 12 so if any old ) or suggestions on what these 

i^b^or^ro^f aspect o f Iheir operation please send them m. 

X h ave some interesting theories to float about these 

transmissions. 



special 



31 



Hi now to Andreas in LsndBberg Gernany. Andreas sent in another very 
Settled collection of consents and logs. Included this tine around 
was his recent visit to Prague. Close to Prague castle is the Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs (MFA) . After visiting an exhibition Andreas had a 
closer look at the MFA and spotted a strange construction of 
which were surely an antenna, he tells us that he could not see the 
whole construction which was well hidden. 

"There was an exit of the MFA, which was open to let soneone out, at 
thi3 point I could see three Log-Periodic antennas and a strange one 
that I could not easily describe. I also saw a little T antenna which 
is possibly for receiving signals. So I ask : what are these antennas 
used for ? I don't think that such constructions are there to nonitor 
siSals froa all over the world. I*, also not aware of short wave 
traffic of Czech enbassies back hone ( does anyone know about thi^ 
?)-and the antennas did not look new." 

He also know about the nany Czech Nunber Stations. OLX is operated by 
the Ministry of Interior, who tell us no other service operates on 
behalf of the MFA, or naybe the MFA operates it on behalf of the 
Ministry of Interior." 

Ed note ; Hhy does a snail country like the Czech RjPjjJjiio * 

Nunber Station 23 hours per day ? I wonder, perhaps they send tr 
to Central Europe and the CIS for another well known agency which ends 
i° a 8! Certainly southing still eo.es out of the Czech Repoblio for 
its own intelligence agents but it is not likely to be via OLX. 

I also nan aged to read through "Der BHD" by Erich Schnitt-Eenboon the 
test researched book on the subject of intelligence I have , ever: read_ 
It was reconnended in an ENIGMA sone tine ago. The book does talk 
about the Hungarian Intelligence Service. Prior to 1989 it was known 
as AVH (Allanvddelni Hatosag) and because of its successes against 
NATO-states it was feared by the Hest. It was then turned into the 
Organisation for the Protection of the Constitution. The new 

governnent (in 1991) gave up espionage in foreign countries 

(Hhy did they continue to operate Nunber Stations then ?). 

There was also a snail scandal because of the TRIED investigation of 
opposition politicians. The Hungarian governnent even IdM I 
Hestern countries for what they did in the years prior 1 

think they did not give up espionage in foreign countries completely, 
3 Note Oddity 4 VDE are both active. They nay have just changed their 
LrfeLoJfo forner allies like Ronania, Slovakia 4 the forner 
Yugoslavia That could easily be regarded as only a donestic 
operation? because all these countries have borders with Hungary and 
in addition Hungary can clain to have a security interest m t 
countries . 

Another thing that was reported on Radio Budapest, Gernan service, was 
that after 1989 several hundred people are said to have been observed 
without pernission by the Hungarian Intelligence Service. 

The leader of the Gernan ninority in Hungary protested that his 
organisation was being observed. He requested to know JJ® £ac^roun ^ 
reasons, and details about just who was observed. The Minority Bureau 
also received conplains fron both Serbian and Greek ninonties. 



Vl 



” The observations wer ! h Sa forBer ha Yugoslavia d calie^into Hungary and the 
1992. Refugees fro*, the f ?" er *^*£ aV “ irr itations" in the local 

S^nitferrongTthfr .JSorttiS because of the incoming refugees. 

Also the German minority in Poland is ” of Interior 

described 1 then £°”%o?SiS Wr". (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 5.96) 

, . u nn t f'flllfid " Xu Dienste des 

Andreas tells us that he is j g b f0 , the Bne.y" ) by Heins 

Segn.rs- (freely translated as Serving lor - T h. not for 

Felfe. He tells about , the . the area of the FRG was 

non it o ring/ transmitting radio f this pro granne went under the 

very wide ranging In 1858 a part by the 513th Military 

naue operation Seatr Ca»P King in Oberursel. There agent 

Intelligence Group with the HQ = at Campling ^ frQn the GDR were 

radio operators from social. 1 ag ^ent radio operators from 

trained. The selection o p such a way as to ensure that the 

socialist countries was conducted 1 German speaking 

person would be living at ^.^^^^^^eode material with the 

SEES oTS-SSSS infornation at tines of political unrest or 
war... • t-o nne agent and one only - and the 

s" ss* ’irzsn? ° f th= bhd ae ” 

controlled by A»erican Intelligence. 



UUU 1/1 w 

Hike's report on the American numbers scene was 
you see, how important ENIGMA is 
exchange of news. 

The FCC is not reliable in t ®^ S us 0 s ov iet b Embassy t -°or they traced 
rrhInr?o C "do^town 1C Sa^a", sometimes even telling the Soviet 
enbassy there . 

And last but not least we ™£ 1 %^i?tiin P iS S ^bUrn^DI'er with a keen 
Orianenburg in the former * . received from him via Andreas 

^T'hou^of ras^r 5 ruco"rdinr e of r *rans.issio„s fro. the 1870 s 
amd 1980's. 

The nS^of^ew “ d 

-rls is *5 - - - 

considerably update our Control is ^ stations never previously 

S-rMo variations**?!) e^i^ing stations. 

A Polish language version of the “Strich Family 
A Hungarian l«»g»«o ««ron of ^ 

in E?glXh (accent) version of the Counting Station 

„ hope to provide .uch .or, detailed infor.ation in issue 12, 
following further analysis of these recordrngs. 



33 



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34 



Simon Mason Writes 



Hallo again and aalcoaa to anoth.r colo.n Thin J^aa^g^iMg to go 

i" a -^r e $ 

currently on air at the following times - 
GOLF KILO 

MON 19.00 TUB 20.30 NED 20.00 THU 22.30 FBI 19.00 SAT 17.30 SUN 20.30 
Try frequencies for GK - 4594 4888 9325 10177 12314 
MIKE DELTA 

TUB 13.30 THU 13.30 SUN 09 - 00 

Try frequencies for HD - 11545 12092 12210 13890 16220 

NHISKY LIMA 

TUB 19. 00 THU 19. 30 SAT 1 7. 30 SUN 10. 00 

The transmissions of HD NL & GK are something of a reduction compared 
lo only TA« yoars ago ahan over SO d it f, rant call signs cote on tte 
air l AU is still around but only very occasionally . 



A +n the library turned up something very interesting. In a book 

called ’* Inside the KGB" by Aleksei Hyagkov I noticed the following 

revealing traits in the actions of an 

agent receiving one way transmissions or engaged in 

communications . " 

The book listed 9 tell-tale signs which may indicate espionage 
activities. 

1) Keeping awake two nights running at times of crisis etc. 

2) Ascertaining the fact of postal correspondence being dispatched 
after the day fixed for radio transmissions. 

3) . Discovery of his definite frequencies and notebook with 5 figure 
groups. 

VJcZT/fr 1" AzV&satfZttr 

be used as an • aerial. 

5) Use of headphones. 

6) Creating the impression that the suspected person is absent from 
the flat at the time of reception. 



7) Refusal to receive visitors especially on the day of reception . 

8) Recording radio broadcasts on a tape recorder . 

9) Concealment of knowledge in radio matters. 

Hop many ENIGMA readers would fulfil one or more of these criteria ? 



A strange request was published in the World DX Club s Contact 
magazine recently by Mr Rodney R. Sixe of Redruth in Cornwall. He says 
"Can anyone help me in obtaining an Israel Radio programme schedule of 
some years ago which shows the frequencies 27905 & 27790 in operation. 
Also, I am keen to get a cassette recording or log of the 3rd harmonic 
of the "7m" pop music grind Jammer on either 29085 and/or 29115 kHz. 

I hadn't heard of either of these transmissions before this, has 
anyone else ? 



In the final death throes of the 2~Let ter Stations, on July 3rd 1996 
at 21.00, Golf Kilo sent the following group headings. "856 31 gruppen 
und 43 gruppen. 571 71 gruppen." Altogether 145 groups which ended at 

21.24. 



Next a couple of logging's which 
Broadcasting (V13) Station heard at 
music and messages on new 9725 kHz 



are quite interesting : New Star 
22.00 sign on with identification , 
// to 8300 kHz. (CONTACT MAGAZINE) 



4768 kHz "Cherry Ripe" spy numbers station heard here at 20.00 . Same 
YL/EE as "Lincolnshire Poacher" but different tune. Heavy jamming on 
frequency possibly from Red China, as this station appears to be m 
Singapore. (U.S. MAGAZINE - POPULAR COMMUNICATIONS) 



Those of you who try your luck on the National 
Lottery might use the random properties of the 
number stations to choose your weekly selection. 

I prefer to use Mike Delta YL/EE station but any 
will do, except perhaps OLX which is a little 
too fast. I take the first two digits of the 5F 
group if they are between 1-49, any above can be 
ignored. For example, 12113 89003 42333 23322 
33399 09037 would produce the numbers 12, 03, 42, 
23, 33, and 09. This method has yielded two £10 
wins in 4 months. 

If you win don't forget my share ! 



Short shrift 

ANYONE who doubts that spy- 
ing is still rife after the supposed 
end of the Cold War should tune 
in a - short wave radio any 
evening between 3 and 20 mHz. ; 
They will come across a robotic • 
female voice reading groups of 
five numbers in English, Rus- 
sian, German, Czech, Spanish, 
Chinese and other languages. 

Now and again they may hear 
4 a male, voice in Romanian, Eng- 
lish and Russian. These trans- 
| missions are" instructions in 
| code sent _to spies in foreign 
countries:;; they have not 
decreased in the past ten years, 

•>- If you come across the some- 
one singing .The Lincolnshire 
■ Poacher, followed by a British- 
:;sounding woman, are you 
listening to MI6 j* Nobody 
knows, . 7&. / : -V>S 

SIMON MASON, Hull • 
- r- • 4 



That's all this time around. Good Listening. 



DAILY MAIL 22.5.96 



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UOBXH. VALES. SEZ S£Z DUG U P LK 1M£L 

Following our request for information in issue 10 the following 
article was received by ENIGMA. 

"In response to your request I did some digging on this and spoke to 
someone who knows about transmitters. He had newspaper articles on 
and collects old military radios so was able to steer me in the r g 
direction for information and gave me a well informed opinion The 
information in the articles was sketchy and merely conveyed official 
dis-information which was considerable in this case. 

In 1980 a field was being ploughed in (forth Kales ne & r Llangollen . 26 
year old Goronwy Morris was working on his father's 600 acre farm when 
a carrying case which looked like a portable typewriter was unearthed 
in the soil. It seems that it was also wrapped in a plastic wrapper. 

It was shown at a National Farming Union meeting to branch secretary, 
Meurig Voyle and everyone present also agreed that it was a spy ra io 
set but nobody knew what to do with it. The Press were told and then 
the Police. The Police gave the farmer a receipt for a brown box 14.5 
inches by 10.5 inches which contained radio equipment. This was the 
last time it was seen in Kales. Police and Home 

descended on the farm at Pant y Haen, Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant. They 
used what they said were metal-detectors all over the area where the 
set was found and the farmer signed a disclaimer saying he had no 
right to it. They would not let him watch the search. The Police gave 
it to the Home Office who then said they didn't have it and that was 
the last anyone saw of it. Everyone denied knowledge of it including 
the Anti-Terrorist Branch and Special Branch. A photo had been taken 
of the set by Voyle before it went to the Police statlon at 
Bay. I had heard that messages were put on perforated tape and put 
through a reader for fast transmissions according to one reporter but 
I do not know if this was the case. Dis~in formation is rife . 

The local HP wrote to the Home Secretary who said that the set was of 
foreign origin and was examined by the Security Service. There were no 
clues to its origin except some bolts with USA stamped on them. I 
a wire recorder for sending coded signals at uJtra high speed - . 

There were 40 metal cased frequency crystals in the box which was like 
a typewriter . This was all in 1980. 

In February 1981 a 2.5 inch strip of microfilm was Tound by the farmer 
on his desk and he guessed it was from the radio. It had 5 P^fes and 
was called " Transmitter Handling and Maintenance and referred to the 
device as being housed in a " dead box". An expert % xaB ^ ed J h j^ 
instructions and concluded that the radio was from 1965 and could 
reach Eastern Europe. He felt that a sleeper had buried it who could 
be activated in the future. A language expert said it was translated 
badly from a foreign language, probably German. Many Germans go o 
holiday in that area and one of them could have buried it It was also 
found that a party of Russians had stayed nearby years before and they 
only went out at night. 



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It later orerged that this 

peopie who had been expelled trom Britain in iu/i in * fMs 

radar stations and attack V-bonber bases. 

Each unit had a radio nut for racei™, orders TeLY. 

™. OT e i» »*>'* “^riL “thT'Tt Zld be for a u„Yt oho 

-xy .s^S-rS'.A- ^ — « 

base at Burtonwood . 

SS-S'SS ™-SS'.:s3'HS i*j Sri; 

fcoJd Air tAat it would explode if it was opened or caM, , p such a 

if it broke down he should not attempt to fix it . It was sue ^ 

sensitive device that he * ould S2Di * tters I believe . One was 

WmmciMmm 

needed. 

YnforYatYon. YYe %‘FFFYlX 

SrS-KSi 

a^aar as tie area ^f/JmVt'key pad input messages as magnetic tape 
lecordYrs lYreYn use by the 1960's then the set ^^HZgYehZd 

sL.5S*s^as- 

„Aare it oas end then it was “ritten, eft toothbrush or 

He probably ended up cleaning the toilets th md „ se fuJ 

painting grass green or ■>» »“» °j? oould hare been for use In 

YaYeYhYoK YYs TnYadl/Yr 'fn ‘the a/ter.ath of ^retain 

ZYeZZY tZYo%YtiYhe be -Yud 

somebody, somewhere -T£ ay7 ENIGMA 



Our t Aar As to 'D ' W 5irou Aasou /or 
feature , de.-:vca V Pop“A«r Com-w^'k^ 1 ®^ 



in forma t ion 
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RUSSIA STEPS UP SPYING AGAINST GERMANY writes Robin Gedya in BONN. 

Russian and eastern European espionage against Gem any threatens 
internal security and is an "outrageous political affront to the aid 
and cooperation offered by Bonn, a recent Interior Ministry report 

stated . 

Hhile military espionage renains a priority of the Eastern 
intelligence service, attention has been diverted to spying out new 
technology, where fiussia is trying to save tine and money by stealing 
lies tern expertise . 

Germany has become the focus of attention for Russia and the former 
Soviet bloc states because of its strategically vital and accessible 
situation at the heart of Europe, the report said. 

"Russia's pledge to stop' sending agents to Germany after the Cold Mar 
has proved thoroughly empty, " said a counter-espionage expert. 
"Thousands of agents are falling over one another here from the 
Russian Federation, to Poland, China and the Middle East. Not only has 
there been a steady increase in espionage over the past five years, 
but a burst of activity since last October shows President Yeltsin 
has ordered an intensification." The report describes the 

restructuring of Russia's intelligence service since the collapse of 
communism, saying they have increased their effectiveness. 

The FSB counter-espionage department, with 100,000 agents, has taken 
over the intrusive and omniscient role formerly filled by the KGB. Its 
new prestige marks a return to the pre-Yeltsin era of a largely 
homogeneous intelligence service, the report claims. 

The FBS's potter's have been extended to fighting organised crime and 
terrorism. In addition to controlling security in the police and 
military, it looks after economic and foreign security. The bar, 
classified as the most sinister intelligence branch, coordinates 
intelligence services and reports directly to the Russian president on 
security and espionage . 

The SBP is above any legal or constitutional control operating in a 
highly conspiratorial sphere" according to the report. The GUO, a 
sub-unit of the SBP, is responsible for the security of the president 
and government ministers. The GRU, the military intelligence 
organisation, has remained untouched by changes to other services. 

US C HALLEN GE IN GULF RADIO MAR writes Robin Hright in MASHINGTON 

The United States launched a new offensive in its campaign to 
undermine the regimes in Iran and Iraq recently with inauguration of a 
radio transmitter in Kuwait 12 times more powerful than any allowed to 
operate in the United States . 

...Economic sanctions, political isolation and a strong US military 
presence in the region have made no significant differences to the 
policies of the governments in either Iran or Iraq. Now the US 
trying to appeal directly to local population s. 



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"Information is a powerful weapon, " said Geoffrey Cowan, director ot 
the Voice of America. " So if getting information to people m , ran 
about democracy and human rights and about what s happening m :,iae 
their country and in the world makes a difference politically, ,hcn 
this will be a transmitter of tremendous importance . 

The 600-kilowatt transmitter will beam signals as far as Central Asia, 
the Indian subcontinent, the Gulf and the eastern Mediterranean, 
making US broadcasting available on home and car radios. 

The biggest impact will be in Iran and Iraq, where audiences are 
expected to expand significantly because listeners no longer need 

short-wave radios to pick up American broadcasts. The transmissions 
fflll be impossible to jam. (Ed. I am sure they will try). 

Iranian broadcasts dominate the airwaves in the region, and Washington 
has been unable to counter them, largely because of poor access to 
local transmitter sites. The Kuwait move marks a major break-through 
because governments in the Gulf have long rejected US requests to 
build a jaediun wave relay station. 

Could any readers confirm if this station is now on air and also the 
frequency in use. Is it jammed ? Information appreciated from you MM 

buffs. 



Just a bit of space to say thank you to everyone who sent m a letter 
logs and information . Me read everything. Information is also retained 
for use on future features and projects. 



Sorry we are not always able to provide a personal reply The ‘ next 
issue of ENIGMA will be published around the end of FEBRUARY 1J9 / . 
would appreciate your contributions by FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 1997. 



This will give you plenty of time to digest the contents of this issue 
and listen out during the cold winter nights ! 



In the next issue of ENIGMA ; 

Full updated control lists for both Voice & Morse. 

Feature on the E10 - Phonetic Alphabet Station - Message Strings. 

Plus all our usual sections. 

Me will also be looking to complete those features which we started in 
previous issues, including the Czech stations , 



PLEASE SEND IN YOUR RECEPTION REPORTS COMMENT AND LETTERS TO ARRIVE BY 
FRIDAY JANUARY 24 1 997. 

ME NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND VALUE YOUR SUPPORT OF ENIGMA 

THANK YOU 



uc 



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HAVANA MOON 

Following on fro* issue 10 jnd ^ illowing C ar?ic!e which 

"“"•irS STtS tissue "5s nagaaine Monitoring Tines. 

Ill HI a nyStery than 

they are today. 

■ Kxr william T. Godbey, a former Ub 
Havana Moon was a pseudony* used Ml in ia ? he 'hobby as one of the 

Intelligence officer, who becane rt ™ d io and short wave nunbers 

forenost US experts on co i U ian for Monitoring Tinea fron 

transmissions . Bill wrote a g 1 9, 1996 , at the age of 58, 

May 1983 to June 198b. He aieo 
after a brief illness. 

Bill recently retired fron ^“ be ^ s C 5 a ngtine a 2weeth2LrLd a C o*panion , 
years happily and quietly wi family in Westchester County, New 

Christine Klauberg Faustian , ^ J 0 f Bill Godbey, the nan behind 

York. The following is a short sketch of ghe selcone letters 

Havana , b LtsSrf Tachnologies, 1858 PleasantvaUe 

SS !T r i“ d cn»T^a.1n05ic. 5.S.A. 

When Sill "rat told ne * b °f V! H“ /“Zn 1 tlTlf tosAhsTdfstinltiye 

ZuluT Zdsfe Tigris end the twinkle in hit eyes. 

The persons that be esse a legend was born out of a ^ssyZawe been 
years ago, and this tine, he ewe to be *»»»» s/K , ft nystery 

the Foremost US expert of his tine on 
broadcasts known as the Number Stations. 

. ~ iif e Bill got his first han call , 

He was a radio buff for vast of his life. Hi 8 ^ ^ ^ develoP ed a 

M5YHS, back in Arkansas when he was jus expertise in cryptography 

fascination with cedes and ctphe. tm ^fjenee ’Znnsnds. which led in 
took him into various “J officer in the national Security 

j-t t. ^TtXe sir- 

teJZ^’fife or its own , 

Bill earned a degree in personality ^and Program 

State College. He spent yea ' rs as south, before moving into the 

Director at AH stations thro g Oakland Tribune and the PallD 

Kii fosr? 0 r:%r%^ ££ 

PTrPcPTroU PJst fhTZone I have ever known. 

, * • uc First appeared in the Newark Hews 

The Numbers columns and artic th years to Monitoring Times, 

to die Clhb bulletin, ^d . owed through the yes ^ ^ ^emFsct 

^ZThfsTuZZsZf 'inT Clandestine Centidentisl. todloscsn end 

SIGN As. 



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There wore a couple of books, and countless radio ^ fcAe 

interviews - all about numbers - an oddly arcane subject made all the 
more fascinating by the silent silhouette in the black fedora. 

s s-s. “S;“.;±ivsts. a 

tag sales, the lottery and pepperom pizza crossworopuzz , 

c undav rimes and a good cup of coffee - he loved the blues, tne 
Honeymooners', and our menagerie of assorted children an pe s. 

I treasure the years we had together. And as much as I * ike *Z 

L, kept 6in all to.yn.lt, - 0 rtZy r fJl°rTil 

H^orV, iVSLV^l onSoplLl.r 5, 1936 - 6. 61.6 Peacefully in KortJ, 

Tarrytown, Hew York, on January 9, 1996. Paus tian. 



THE LAUGHING CAVALIER 

Back to Britain now, bot staying on a siwilar the.. Fro. toriojin 

'"Laughin^Cavalier'^was l roS°la? e£SUXut!E*%o Short Wav. Kogazine 
fo? ua™ ye"s and sent in no.bors logs and inforwation This was at a 
t?L Zn y “ one really dared to aention the subject. let alone openly 
write about it in a British magazine. 

You may recall that we appealed for information back in issue 8 about 
the Laughing Cavalier, the following arrived concerning him. 

- You asked about the 'Laughing Cavalier'. This person was actually 

His^ knowledge 0 was ^SdS^i? he ^ked^in 0 COdHTERCLAH in the 
"iSBOs f regret to inforn yon that this person i. no. h!s 

him although he rarely talked about the details of his working 1 



lives in London although she knew 



He is survived by a wife who still 
very little about his working life 

“ss.ws: "ss* 1 " 

number stations since 1961. 

TP mt readers have any further information it would be most 
appreciated?* also if you have any copies =f his «fer..tion which 
appeared in Short Wave hagazine we would Jgr««te 

was°edited U by d peter PP Rouse? though w.terlal way also hare appeared 
elsewhere in the magazine. 

Can anyone tell us more about COUNTERCLAN and also the Clandestine 
Radio Society in London which are mentioned above l 



HAARP - The Truth is out there (but finding 
prove almost impossible). 



it could 



„~ked if any readers could provide information 
Active Auroral Research Project. 

We received " 

the book •‘Angels Don t Plar thiajA^^ ^ finding the aiddle ground 

(more on this . held in some quarters and the official line 

sssr«rsL*^*s £» — * 

. h/ ._ rrf anything about HAARP the following feature 
Written 7r’ JoZ Fulford provides excellent introduction. 

What 's Happening in Alaska ? 

Should you t»is fa^rb^s. 'ion 

Si b Ar^r th U Tt£ 

fheZZ’VntTtLVZ^ hZrP RESEARCH PROJECT. Ton ,re there. 

. . fnnnd ? Proposed in the early 

Where is 'there' end whet he r “ around 2002, this is the site 

«?»:» “If 5 r e° C u r ’ Pl force Zd «7vr Project code nneed EAARP-High 
°/r£L Z 7ct°£ Afornl Reseeroh Project. 

Milch speculation has bee n »£i* £ “ jj^destro f the* earth, to n enchine 
from a doomsday machine " bloh wi nest J rain patte rns, change the 

*2££ ZtlZef.ZnZTldWeZlgration, and even hnrn a hole in the 

upper atmosphere . 

Putting the intent of the f t “jf f fii n’phZZ 

basically have up thero lS bff(J of gra vel, measuring approximately 1000 
array, built on a 33 ac towers arranged in a rectangle, each 

by 1200 feet. There will be 180 towers * f dipoles. One set of 
of which will support at its top croa ^ 2 .* to 8 MHz. The 

the higher Yrljfnfies from 7 MHz to 10 MHz. 

Providing perineter ProtePtJon er^nd the error ^Ui^Jep 

which will keep away ^ {eet above the ground under 

Z%TZ%\e‘~ ZpZZZZlZe^/ 1 trnnsnitter shelters and the control 

room . 

" There " ill be ud^Twifl^bi^lix ^l^kW^ZanZZi The*. radiated 
Inside each building wil 3 . 600 kW. The entire project will 

nn&f»r will bO D H OU AAA xu 
be powered by six 2,500 kW generators. 



n 



Hhen the transmitter are °™ r ^ sod ' jJtlbll^n ^mjlitude In^phasf.^The 
latitudes . 

The actual Project will b ° th j n uj,™ ^quency^Iono^heric liTslarc^ 

above, to ® °fAe Vecond UHF radar known as an Incoherent Scatter 

l^TlScS It will be used to measure electron density, electron and 
Radar (ISC). It will oe useu uu , Th tuo y 5 _ Governnent 

ion temperatures, and doppler fre . qu p r / ph ‘ illips Labs ) and the U.S. 
T nC % S f/Z°l7Ral r al Research Tnd ^a/ Recaro h Laboratory). The 
goVerLent agencies have ^ fonZoTdet Uf aZ 

£i-i ^fr.r.d spsctrnn. 

Hhst docs this .etc for os rsdio dhofru’, list's, 

ionosphere end silos the earth 
ZZTscientTsTs to Lssuro shot these heated ionospheric particles 
will do to radio transmission signals. 

Modoletion of one radio tr^s.issioh h 7 another radio ‘/J^Znh^ 

ha essoined. This oas first “ e Z lon g lore station . Both 

which was superimposed over another European long wa d 

of these long wave stations were lc coated in the upper i 
both had output powers over one million watts, 
atmospheric heating ! 

_ o . n hp latitudes involved with this transmission 

Those who live * t the deal about abo ut the effect of these 

system, have speculated * gr Lights The Northern Lights, or Aurora 

transmissions on radio transmissions, especially 

Borealis , trreak h uhnt trill happen if this project has an 

in the short wave spectrum. What will happen ir P project have a 

unexpected effect on these lights ? Could sucn a y 

pronounced impact on short wave radio as we know it . 

Too other ionospheric reseer oh Psojeets 

G crernment : one in northern Aleske end Z ° Zen in operation for 
the shortwave band. 

same fcAaii*. «* *** one i„ Peru, another near Moscow, and two 

othe^sftei. This project also involves ionospheric heating at powers 
less th^hat is proposed by the HAARP project. 

7n\!r r n°e\ eCt do iS a Msitl Zlrlh'for MeTeyword TaA% 7" .ThVrVfs plenty 
to find there and some interesting documents to road. 

John Fulford 
Federal File 



^llihlT^rilVhs ^JrL”mu v t W » «. 

most detailed and well researched publication. 

L ri b B r „“ r ° e ConerMS c,t y “ 6 " ; f-'feilliz-os 

1 bori 

Published by ; Earthpulse Press P.O. Box 201393 Ankerage Alaska USA 

201393 

Distributed by ; CRB Reasearch P.O. Bex 56 Commack New York USA 11725 
<® $14.95 U.S. 

or the European Incoheren t Scatter . R 1 nay have been mentioned in 
It is possible that some of the signals may u*v 

i\±ikT^z\ ifAZsVZd sn 

# e .Odd appreciate any information on possible frequencies or modes 
for either of the above mentioned projects . 

X The full list of sites for the European Incoherent Scatter RadaT 

^isTersThtli ^^/^rSSKiy 4, *"* ,r 

Russia ; near Kharkov, Ukraine and in Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan. 



ZlTd^ofTreZr^lZs IToUo/.’Z hlpeThe t"tl^ iVslZ 
those mysterious Faders. 

But let's just have a quick look at a few old friends 

TBS PIP - SO change. still actije on 3757 i occasionally 5450 kHz, 
best reception in Europe during hours of darkness. 

THE ECHO - Moved from 4105 to new 3964, but may change again without 
warning, again best reception during hours of darkness . 

n a pn uu<zrr STATION - More chaotic infornation about this signal . 
Tonis fo Zerat. fn the eZings on 6695//3740 ox 6584//669S. And D.y 

ThTsfm.l changes between a loo buzzing sound W*os pulsed 

nothiTZxo rhzn'T/jdb/ol TxZ , radio 
telephone link operated free Algeria ! Consents unloose. 

™.TZ?ai. z.ritZeftzr-uitriL Zbtz z,fss2^s 

Sta tion . 



‘fraaZnlial S 'wc/°SrSW* 2S» i» «. 

sane order . 

Although it sounds like a slow sweeping Jammer to the passing listener 
its operation does not suggest any kind of Jaiming activity. 

Frequency cycle and tine in minutes and seconds. 

0.00 = 7680 0.30 = 7690 1.00 = 7700 1.30 = 9185 2.00 9310 

2.30 = 9332 3.00 - 10120 3.30 - 13430 4.00 Back to 7680. 

If you tune to Just one frequency and wait llow°it 

within 3.5 ninutes. From this you will then be-able to follow it 
around its cycle. Any connects on this nost appreciated. 

FADERS ( XF ) - Me have made sone progress with these rather anonymous 
Ifgaals Detailed aaalysis ahaaa that t he signals art .ad. ap of a 
uul tiple nodulated AN signal. 

The steps are 500 HZ 1100 HZ 1400 HZ 2kHz 2.6kHz 2.9 kHz Jt 3.4 
One reports suggests that these signals are NATO active MODEM s w J\ lch 
operate in nation passing a.ss^.s I tie. tad this ^".ation aith 
regular contributor Mike in Kent. He consents (I will tryMdgetcnis 
right this tine ) "At least we're nakmg sone progress by confirming 
nulti-node AM. I'm a bit sceptical about MATO modems as nost tra/ 
is now on the Milsat's so why should they use HF with all its 
associate difficulties. The amount of traffic and number of 
freauencies is also far in excess of any operational requirements on a 
day to day basis, emergencies excepted. Also no one has he * rd ^ y 

voice traffic, which could be expected from tllae to listed " 
circuits and nets are set up and equipment aligned and tested. 



of ENIGMA include (many more 



Fader frequencies noted since last issue 
are probably active ) — 

3218 Heard transmitting on top of a ' Shipping Manning ' of debris from 
station LYL on April 8 at 20.40 UTC. 



4020 5090 on top 

4460 of JSR 

4478 5195 

4500 5313 

4845 5328 

5400 
5468 
5788 



6825 7658 9125 10142 

9245 10481 

11102 

11517 



13430 (weak) 



Do any readers know about a system call Park H ill (yes I know^i t 
sounds like a brand of cigarettes) - what does the mode sound like ? 
Is it still an active systen ? Help required . 

THAT'S ALL FOR THIS ISSUE - THEORIES COMMENTS & LOGS ALL APPRECIATED. 



UCp 



THE BUZZER 4625 kHz (and occasionally other frequencies) 
provoking. 

T „<,k tou to forgive ne for going over sone old ground but hope that 
the direction we are heading will be of interest. 

A key Point to the operation of this station is ^starting date^nd 
feeiin^that 1 ?" KgS" fransnitting sometime after 1986, but before 
1989. 

Because the ,i f al Uo.e uot haue a^e.n^^ 

IS . 

States have been fascinated y should add that most things 

?£TJ£3tl L*££ European or O.I.S. in 

origin) . 

The earliest direction Madia* results I rece ived po j;ted touurds.the 

O.I.S. , indeed the srsn.l was '^uSia (It mb* possible that the 
outside the Polish border!? ived a further DE fix taken with 

location was ehansed). in 1995 I j this placed the sisnal in 

“■•“I' 1* S E “st of Soscow. The exact location is reported to be 
Sar tSe to™ o? Pensa sene 300 .lies 5. E. of Moscow. 

4 - fHo n „pc tions of who receives the transmitted 
B ,!^ls’ e anr:°h,r™ -m fK? look at the node of operation. 

Much study, both basic and technical npiex^data^or sophisticated 

seen to lead to the sane point. No is a si)nple noise 

unknown node is in °P er *JJ®“- 4 JJ} t or ? he variant at just before the 
- nothing more than a status ^icator. The vari introduction 0 f a 

top of each hour seens to be nothing more tnan 
further tone sequence. 

SO far so Hood ; .. know .“here the trajs.itt.r^ar. ^at 

SfSSbe^^moSrSS ™ 'doubt n»ny other pusxled SW listeners - 
not many others I guess. 

. ohinh send information there is also a 

Like nost transmitters .J e “ ge the signal is reported to be 

receiving station .In the sQUnd reasonable, the transmitter and 

received in Austria. Thi vqormA and Penza are not too far 

receivers are at fixe . kHz 24 hours per day and although it 

X“£t audible 0 in 3TffdSiS““ dayti.o I 8 uess it is audible in 

Austria. 

You nay a ® k why f t J® /“^hese *a?e ios? S p%bably°tests from a back-up 

transnitter^locate^eisenhere , which, would switch on in case of a 

problem . 



So .-just who is listening ? The receive site is reported to be at the 
United nations Vienna International Centre in Austria. But Why . 

> u * 

Thank, you for staying with me so far, the next part of my feature is 
something of a calculated guess, but if you look at all the evidence 
so far it may make you ponder ! 



In April 1986 a terrible accident occurred. Many people died and 
thousands of others suffered irreversible illness. This accident was 
the world's worst nuclear disaster. A reactor at the Chernobyl power 
station melted down. 

The International Atomic Energy Agency is the body which regulates and 
advises on the peaceful use of nuclear power. It has established a 
system used to facilitate emergency assistance to member countries in 
the event of radiation accidents. 

The headquarters of the IAEA are situated at the Vienna International 
Centre, Wagramerstrasse 5, P.0. Box 100, 1400, Vienna, Austria. 



It is my opinion that the Buzzer is some kind of 'status indicator 
for the disabled Chernobyl nuclear reactor. What exactly this means is 
open to comment, but perhaps the signal we hear all the time is simply 
saying that everything is stable. 



You may at this point still be a bit dubious ! Have you heard of the 
Gamma Curtain ? Recent reports have suggested that Russia s nuclear 
power stations "posed an unacceptable risk" to safety. Hugh investment 
was needed to bring them upto western standards. ohould another 
accident like the one at Chernobyl occur, there is as yet a limited 
capability for tracking the radiation plume. 

Enter the "gamma curtain" - an early warning and monitoring system - 
in Belarus and Ukraine. Set up at a cost of £3.1m with money from the 
European Commission Tacis (technical assistance to the CIS), Gamma-1 
will be fully operational by mid - 1996. 



The gamma curtain is similar to systems already in use in the west 
(more on this in a moment). The system will also give western Europe 
an early warning of any accidental releases of radiation. The system 
is a detection network, with radiation monitors sited around the 
nuclear stations connected by radio link to local response centres 
which collect and process the data. Duplicated^ computer systems at 
each centre enables operators to monitor the situation continually. 
However an alarm is automatically raised if present thresholds are 
breached or any systems malfunction are detected. 



All data are sent automatically to two national response centres, one 
in Kiev and the other in Minsk, via dedicated phone lines. Summary 
data will also be sent to western Europe via B - mail on a routine 
basis and immedia te ly i f the s i tu a tion warrants it .. 



Three stations have been selected for phase one. Ignalina in Belarus 
and Rivne and Zaporizhya in Ukraine. 



Chernobyl was not chosen because the severe contamination in the area 
would have presented additional complexities for the pilot system. 



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If we are anywhere near the truth on this then .£ Jg/ ^ho‘ 

area for other 'seemingly pointles s ? Aat a *n,t single 

oust be candidates for some kind of f *™ s r of the same magnitude as 

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Photographs of th'Buzxy using a spectrum analyse r. 
Kent. Resolution lkHz\DIV. 



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BUZZER IE NORMAL MODE 



BUZZER IN 'WARBLE' MODE 
JUST PRIOR TO HOUR. 




Information on 
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the ganna curtain w'i 



th full acknowledgeuents to Dinah 



Detectors pla^d at ground l.v.l 

enough as plunes .ay rase above thaa-Detaohor^na^ ^ 

cause spo'ts ceil a»»y fro. . the "LS and 

^^src-^iisssr.^ as 

Earlier I mentioned that the n^of Britain ' s^^own^arly warning 

already in use in the west, ™e outline of although 

system is built around t e P to reS pond in the event of a 

these sane systems would seen liKeiy 

nuclear accident. 

AWDREY : (Atonic Weapons Detection^ 

11^?**°^ nil6S <12 ° kn) aHay - 



stations and R.P.B. s systen 



DIADEM : Seisnographic 

RIHNET would also contribute data. 

h andkt • A signalling systen links the High Wycombe 

H.Q. with 252 police stations anti ^ adq “^o er sone r °15! 1 000 carrier 
These in turn distribute in fo ^ation receiyers ar0 turned do wn but 

^rsw?tohe5 h o?f n °5o«any: they enit a quiet ticking sound, a sort of 

nuclear 'all's well' . 

In recent years considerable changes have ^aken^place "i^the 
warning systen ( mainly due to ^he f snall 'nini net' stations. 

Britain na y.f av ® "°^ C the side of ^oads and motorways, they look quite 
These are situated at the siae mJ > nv Questions would probably 

innocent and doubtless anyone asking y f orecast data ! There is 

be told that these machines gather j»a ^ ^ tQ gafcher data in the 

sone truth in that, but the ident . Windspeed and direction is 

SS'ced L^etSineThe path of fallout pluses, 
in the event of an attach or accident the^nited 

Monitoring Organisation Forecasting Office) along with 8 

Bracknell Weather Centre ( involved in providing weather 

SKT«: ;i^ n i dS fer d buridi„g l up 0 a Picture of any particular zone if 
events dictate. 

The '.ini net ' station, operate on a tenet. ^f^S^^atSor^Ihe 
iron then is sent over BT lines Probably ’i^the^ These ^ * 

lines used are those which ca 7 r 72 kHz, far outside the 

systen of 'carriers' (the carrier £* eq “® ncy di signal) onto ordinary 
audio range, although modulated 7 fci t0 be cheaply connected 

SiTS-rtS'^ very renote areas. 

nn thi s feature, rene a b . gr that ae . 

about the Buzzer and t ag. 



W e would appreciate vour oo jaiu ?rits 
a r R makin g suggestions and — n . ot state a ent a 
lika. sn please keep sending in information 



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